Bug 2389460 (CVE-2025-38576) - CVE-2025-38576 kernel: powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe
Summary: CVE-2025-38576 kernel: powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38576
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-08-19 18:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-08-21 12:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-19 18:01:50 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe

Multiple race conditions existed between the PCIe hotplug driver and the
EEH driver, leading to a variety of kernel oopses of the same general
nature:

<pcie device unplug>
<eeh driver trigger>
<hotplug removal trigger>
<pcie tree reconfiguration>
<eeh recovery next step>
<oops in EEH driver bus iteration loop>

A second class of oops is also seen when the underlying bus disappears
during device recovery.

Refactor the EEH module to be PCI rescan and remove safe.  Also clean
up a few minor formatting / readability issues.


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