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CVE-2025-38094

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2025-07-03 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelDebian Debian Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-667

References