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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38311" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-10T07:42:20.006Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:59:26.621Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38311" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38311.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38311" title: "iavf: get rid of the crit lock" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niavf: get rid of the crit lock\n\nGet rid of the crit lock.\nThat frees us from the error prone logic of try_locks.\n\nThanks to netdev_lock() by Jakub it is now easy, and in most cases we were\nprotected by it already - replace crit lock by netdev lock when it was not\nthe case.\n\nLockdep reports that we should cancel the work under crit_lock [splat1],\nand that was the scheme we have mostly followed since [1] by Slawomir.\nBut when that is done we still got into deadlocks [splat2]. So instead\nwe should look at the bigger problem, namely \"weird locking/scheduling\"\nof the iavf. The first step to fix that is to remove the crit lock.\nI will followup with a -next series that simplifies scheduling/tasks.\n\nCancel the work without netdev lock (weird unlock+lock scheme),\nto fix the [splat2] (which would be totally ugly if we would kept\nthe crit lock).\n\nExtend protected part of iavf_watchdog_task() to include scheduling\nmore work.\n\nNote that the removed comment in iavf_reset_task() was misplaced,\nit belonged to inside of the removed if condition, so it's gone now.\n\n[splat1] - w/o this patch - The deadlock during VF removal:\n WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected\n sh/3825 is trying to acquire lock:\n ((work_completion)(&(&adapter-\u003ewatchdog_task)-\u003ework)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: start_flush_work+0x1a1/0x470\n but task is already holding lock:\n (&adapter-\u003ecrit_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: iavf_remove+0xd1/0x690 [iavf]\n which lock already depends on the new lock.\n\n[splat2] - when cancelling work under crit lock, w/o this series,\n\t see [2] for the band aid attempt\n WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected\n sh/3550 is trying to acquire lock:\n ((wq_completion)iavf){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: touch_wq_lockdep_map+0x26/0x90\n but task is already holding lock:\n (&dev-\u003elock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: iavf_remove+0xa6/0x6e0 [iavf]\n which lock already depends on the new lock.\n\n[1] fc2e6b3b132a (\"iavf: Rework mutexes for better synchronisation\")\n[2] https://github.com/pkitszel/linux/commit/52dddbfc2bb60294083f5711a158a" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d1639a17319ba78a018280cd2df6577a7e5d9fab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"620ab4d6215de0b25227f9fff1a8c7fb66837cb8"},{"version":"d1639a17319ba78a018280cd2df6577a7e5d9fab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"120f28a6f314fef7f282c99f196923fe44081cad"},{"version":"2647ff59c52ef42c853c905817ed1a7f092d59a5","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"63d14a43128540016ebd4f7fa3ad3a2f0d6e642c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.42","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.4.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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