Bug 2383401 (CVE-2025-38388) - CVE-2025-38388 kernel: firmware: arm_ffa: Replace mutex with rwlock to avoid sleep in atomic context
Summary: CVE-2025-38388 kernel: firmware: arm_ffa: Replace mutex with rwlock to avoid ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38388
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-07-25 14:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-25 19:22 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-25 14:02:40 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware: arm_ffa: Replace mutex with rwlock to avoid sleep in atomic context

The current use of a mutex to protect the notifier hashtable accesses
can lead to issues in the atomic context. It results in the below
kernel warnings:

  |  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:258
  |  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 9, name: kworker/0:0
  |  preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
  |  RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
  |  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.14.0 #4
  |  Workqueue: ffa_pcpu_irq_notification notif_pcpu_irq_work_fn
  |  Call trace:
  |   show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)
  |   dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0x90
  |   dump_stack+0x18/0x24
  |   __might_resched+0x114/0x170
  |   __might_sleep+0x48/0x98
  |   mutex_lock+0x24/0x80
  |   handle_notif_callbacks+0x54/0xe0
  |   notif_get_and_handle+0x40/0x88
  |   generic_exec_single+0x80/0xc0
  |   smp_call_function_single+0xfc/0x1a0
  |   notif_pcpu_irq_work_fn+0x2c/0x38
  |   process_one_work+0x14c/0x2b4
  |   worker_thread+0x2e4/0x3e0
  |   kthread+0x13c/0x210
  |   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

To address this, replace the mutex with an rwlock to protect the notifier
hashtable accesses. This ensures that read-side locking does not sleep and
multiple readers can acquire the lock concurrently, avoiding unnecessary
contention and potential deadlocks. Writer access remains exclusive,
preserving correctness.

This change resolves warnings from lockdep about potential sleep in
atomic context.


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