CVE-2025-39908

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: dev_ioctl: take ops lock in hwtstamp lower paths

ndo hwtstamp callbacks are expected to run under the per-device ops lock. Make the lower get/set paths consistent with the rest of ndo invocations.

Kernel log: WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 51364 at ./include/net/netdev_lock.h:70 __netdev_update_features+0x4bd/0xe60 … RIP: 0010:__netdev_update_features+0x4bd/0xe60 … Call Trace: <TASK> netdev_update_features+0x1f/0x60 mlx5_hwtstamp_set+0x181/0x290 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_hwtstamp_set+0x19/0x30 [mlx5_core] dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib+0x9f/0x220 dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib+0x9f/0x220 dev_set_hwtstamp+0x13d/0x240 dev_ioctl+0x12f/0x4b0 sock_ioctl+0x171/0x370 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x3f7/0x900 ? __sys_setsockopt+0x69/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x2e0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 … </TASK> …. —[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]—

Note that the mlx5_hwtstamp_set and mlx5e_hwtstamp_set functions shown in the trace come from an in progress patch converting the legacy ioctl to ndo_hwtstamp_get/set and are not present in mainline.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d92fa0cdc02291de57f72170e8b60cef0cf5372
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/686cab5a18e443e1d5f2abb17bed45837836425f

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