CVE-2025-38551 (GCVE-0-2025-38551)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-16 11:34
Modified
2025-08-16 11:34
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-net: fix recursived rtnl_lock() during probe() The deadlock appears in a stack trace like: virtnet_probe() rtnl_lock() virtio_config_changed_work() netdev_notify_peers() rtnl_lock() It happens if the VMM sends a VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE request while the virtio-net driver is still probing. The config_work in probe() will get scheduled until virtnet_open() enables the config change notification via virtio_config_driver_enable().
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Linux Linux Version: df28de7b00502761eba62490f413c65c9b175ed9
Version: df28de7b00502761eba62490f413c65c9b175ed9
Version: df28de7b00502761eba62490f413c65c9b175ed9
Version: cb06b26bb2e6d2c6a32f65f7bb1b7dcbe033d675
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