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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38720"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-04T15:33:14.057Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:33:40.872Z"
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-2025-38720"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38720.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38720"
title: "net: hibmcge: fix rtnl deadlock issue"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: hibmcge: fix rtnl deadlock issue\n\nCurrently, the hibmcge netdev acquires the rtnl_lock in\npci_error_handlers.reset_prepare() and releases it in\npci_error_handlers.reset_done().\n\nHowever, in the PCI framework:\npci_reset_bus - __pci_reset_slot - pci_slot_save_and_disable_locked -\n pci_dev_save_and_disable - err_handler-\u003ereset_prepare(dev);\n\nIn pci_slot_save_and_disable_locked():\n\tlist_for_each_entry(dev, &slot-\u003ebus-\u003edevices, bus_list) {\n\t\tif (!dev-\u003eslot || dev-\u003eslot!= slot)\n\t\t\tcontinue;\n\t\tpci_dev_save_and_disable(dev);\n\t\tif (dev-\u003esubordinate)\n\t\t\tpci_bus_save_and_disable_locked(dev-\u003esubordinate);\n\t}\n\nThis will iterate through all devices under the current bus and execute\nerr_handler-\u003ereset_prepare(), causing two devices of the hibmcge driver\nto sequentially request the rtnl_lock, leading to a deadlock.\n\nSince the driver now executes netif_device_detach()\nbefore the reset process, it will not concurrently with\nother netdev APIs, so there is no need to hold the rtnl_lock now.\n\nTherefore, this patch removes the rtnl_lock during the reset process and\nadjusts the position of HBG_NIC_STATE_RESETTING to ensure\nthat multiple resets are not executed concurrently."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3f5a61f6d504f55ed1a36cce044d5123d508721f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d85a6346fd6f595c4914205762d0cdf35c004a5e"},{"version":"3f5a61f6d504f55ed1a36cce044d5123d508721f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1343a8994ca7dba78f5dd818e89d68331c21c35d"},{"version":"3f5a61f6d504f55ed1a36cce044d5123d508721f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c875503a9b9082928d7d3fc60b5400d16fbfae4e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.15.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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