In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: cadence: macb: Fix a possible deadlock in macb_halt_tx.
There is a situation where after THALT is set high, TGO stays high as
well. Because jiffies are never updated, as we are in a context with
interrupts disabled, we never exit that loop and have a deadlock.
That deadlock was noticed on a sama5d4 device that stayed locked for days.
Use retries instead of jiffies so that the timeout really works and we do
not have a deadlock anymore.
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| Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: cadence: macb: Fix a possible deadlock in macb_halt_tx. There is a situation where after THALT is set high, TGO stays high as well. Because jiffies are never updated, as we are in a context with interrupts disabled, we never exit that loop and have a deadlock. That deadlock was noticed on a sama5d4 device that stayed locked for days. Use retries instead of jiffies so that the timeout really works and we do not have a deadlock anymore. | |
| Title | net: cadence: macb: Fix a possible deadlock in macb_halt_tx. | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2025-07-03T07:44:17.442Z
Updated: 2025-11-03T19:58:26.256Z
Reserved: 2025-04-16T04:51:23.984Z
Link: CVE-2025-38094
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-07-03T08:15:25.490
Modified: 2025-11-03T20:18:46.420
Link: CVE-2025-38094