CVE-2025-38177 (GCVE-0-2025-38177)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-04 12:47 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:22
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Title
sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent hfsc_qlen_notify() is not idempotent either and not friendly to its callers, like fq_codel_dequeue(). Let's make it idempotent to ease qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() callers' life: 1. update_vf() decreases cl->cl_nactive, so we can check whether it is non-zero before calling it. 2. eltree_remove() always removes RB node cl->el_node, but we can use RB_EMPTY_NODE() + RB_CLEAR_NODE() to make it safe.
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Linux Linux Affected: 959466588aa7f84ccf79ae36a1d89542eaf9aaec , < 9a5fd5c2f4d4afdd5e405083ee53e0789ce76956 (git)
Affected: 959466588aa7f84ccf79ae36a1d89542eaf9aaec , < 72c61ffbeeb8c50f6d4d70c65d3283aa1bac57a7 (git)
Affected: 959466588aa7f84ccf79ae36a1d89542eaf9aaec , < a5efc95a33bd4fcb879250852828cc58c7862970 (git)
Affected: 959466588aa7f84ccf79ae36a1d89542eaf9aaec , < 0475c85426b18eccdcb7f9fb58d8f8e9c6c58c87 (git)
Affected: 959466588aa7f84ccf79ae36a1d89542eaf9aaec , < 9030a91235ae4845ec71902c3e0cecfc9ed1f2df (git)
Affected: 959466588aa7f84ccf79ae36a1d89542eaf9aaec , < d06476714d2819b550e0cc39222347e2c8941c9d (git)
Affected: 959466588aa7f84ccf79ae36a1d89542eaf9aaec , < c1175c4ad01dbc9c979d099861fa90a754f72059 (git)
Affected: 959466588aa7f84ccf79ae36a1d89542eaf9aaec , < 51eb3b65544c9efd6a1026889ee5fb5aa62da3bb (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.297 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.241 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.190 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.138 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.90 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.28 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.6 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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