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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38372" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-25T12:53:15.255Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:37:02.465Z" 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-2025-38372" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38372.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38372" title: "RDMA/mlx5: Fix unsafe xarray access in implicit ODP handling" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/mlx5: Fix unsafe xarray access in implicit ODP handling\n\n__xa_store() and __xa_erase() were used without holding the proper lock,\nwhich led to a lockdep warning due to unsafe RCU usage. This patch\nreplaces them with xa_store() and xa_erase(), which perform the necessary\nlocking internally.\n\n =============================\n WARNING: suspicious RCPU usage\n 6.14.0-rc7_for_upstream_debug_2025_03_18_15_01 #1 Not tainted\n -----------------------------\n ./include/linux/xarray.h:1211 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!\n\n other info that might help us debug this:\n\n rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1\n 3 locks held by kworker/u136:0/219:\n at: process_one_work+0xbe4/0x15f0\n process_one_work+0x75c/0x15f0\n pagefault_mr+0x9a5/0x1390 [mlx5_ib]\n\n stack backtrace:\n CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 219 Comm: kworker/u136:0 Not tainted\n 6.14.0-rc7_for_upstream_debug_2025_03_18_15_01 #1\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS\n rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n Workqueue: mlx5_ib_page_fault mlx5_ib_eqe_pf_action [mlx5_ib]\n Call Trace:\n dump_stack_lvl+0xa8/0xc0\n lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x1e6/0x260\n xas_create+0xb8a/0xee0\n xas_store+0x73/0x14c0\n __xa_store+0x13c/0x220\n ? xa_store_range+0x390/0x390\n ? spin_bug+0x1d0/0x1d0\n pagefault_mr+0xcb5/0x1390 [mlx5_ib]\n ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1f/0x30\n mlx5_ib_eqe_pf_action+0x3be/0x2620 [mlx5_ib]\n ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x400/0x400\n ? mlx5_ib_invalidate_range+0xcb0/0xcb0 [mlx5_ib]\n process_one_work+0x7db/0x15f0\n ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0xda0/0xda0\n ? assign_work+0x168/0x240\n worker_thread+0x57d/0xcd0\n ? rescuer_thread+0xc40/0xc40\n kthread+0x3b3/0x800\n ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0\n ? lock_downgrade+0x680/0x680\n ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x12d/0x270\n ? spin_bug+0x1d0/0x1d0\n ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x284/0x9e0\n ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x284/0x400\n ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0\n ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70\n ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7cc8f681f6d4ae4478ae0f60485fc768f2b450da","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9d2ef890e49963b768d4fe5a33029aacd9f6b93f"},{"version":"d3d930411ce390e532470194296658a960887773","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ebebffb47c78f63ba7e4fbde393e44af38b7625d"},{"version":"d3d930411ce390e532470194296658a960887773","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c6b640ea08bff1a192bf87fa45246ff1e40767c"},{"version":"a306dfff6b76aafa264ad33874a8992a8d5858b7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"edfb65dbb9ffd3102f3ff4dd21316158e56f1976","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.12.13","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.37"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"6.13.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.12.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.6","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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