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CVE-2025-68320
published 2025-12-16

CVE-2025-68320: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lan966x: Fix sleeping in atomic context The following warning was seen when we try to…

PriorityP338high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.36%
28.7th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lan966x: Fix sleeping in atomic context The following warning was seen when we try to connect using ssh to the device. BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:575 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 104, name: dropbear preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 INFO: lockdep is turned off. CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 104 Comm: dropbear Tainted: G W 6.18.0-rc2-00399-g6f1ab1b109b9-dirty #530 NONE Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: Generic DT based system Call trace: unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14 show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x7c/0xac dump_stack_lvl from __might_resched+0x16c/0x2b0 __might_resched from __mutex_lock+0x64/0xd34 __mutex_lock from mutex_lock_nested+0x1c/0x24 mutex_lock_nested from lan966x_stats_get+0x5c/0x558 lan966x_stats_get from dev_get_stats+0x40/0x43c dev_get_stats from dev_seq_printf_stats+0x3c/0x184 dev_seq_printf_stats from dev_seq_show+0x10/0x30 dev_seq_show from seq_read_iter+0x350/0x4ec seq_read_iter from seq_read+0xfc/0x194 seq_read from proc_reg_read+0xac/0x100 proc_reg_read from vfs_read+0xb0/0x2b0 vfs_read from ksys_read+0x6c/0xec ksys_read from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c Exception stack(0xf0b11fa8 to 0xf0b11ff0) 1fa0: 00000001 00001000 00000008 be9048d8 00001000 00000001 1fc0: 00000001 00001000 00000008 00000003 be905920 0000001e 00000000 00000001 1fe0: 0005404c be9048c0 00018684 b6ec2cd8 It seems that we are using a mutex in a atomic context which is wrong. Change the mutex with a spinlock.

Affected

16 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.17.8-1 (forky)linux 6.17.8-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007 < 5a5d2f7727752b64d13263eacd9f8d08a322e6625a5d2f7727752b64d13263eacd9f8d08a322e662
linuxlinux>= 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007 < c8ab03aa5bd9fd8bfe5d9552d8605826759fdd4dc8ab03aa5bd9fd8bfe5d9552d8605826759fdd4d
linuxlinux>= 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007 < 3ac743c60ec502163c435712d527eeced8d833483ac743c60ec502163c435712d527eeced8d83348
linuxlinux>= 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007 < 0216721ce71252f60d89af49c8dff613358058d30216721ce71252f60d89af49c8dff613358058d3
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.12.63-16.12.63-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.17.8-16.17.8-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.0-106.1066.8.0-106.106
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.17.0-14.146.17.0-14.14
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.17.0 < 6.6.1176.6.117
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.13.0 < 6.17.86.17.8
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.7.0 < 6.12.586.12.58
ubuntulinux-aws
ubuntulinux-oracle
ubuntulinux-xilinx

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv3.2LOW
vendor_ubuntu7.8HIGH
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