CVE-2025-68320

lan966x: Fix sleeping in atomic context

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Dec 16, 2025
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Dec 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

lan966x: Fix sleeping in atomic context

The following warning was seen when we try to connect using ssh to the device.

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:575 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 104, name: dropbear preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 INFO: lockdep is turned off. CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 104 Comm: dropbear Tainted: G W 6.18.0-rc2-00399-g6f1ab1b109b9-dirty #530 NONE Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: Generic DT based system Call trace: unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14 show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x7c/0xac dump_stack_lvl from __might_resched+0x16c/0x2b0 __might_resched from __mutex_lock+0x64/0xd34 __mutex_lock from mutex_lock_nested+0x1c/0x24 mutex_lock_nested from lan966x_stats_get+0x5c/0x558 lan966x_stats_get from dev_get_stats+0x40/0x43c dev_get_stats from dev_seq_printf_stats+0x3c/0x184 dev_seq_printf_stats from dev_seq_show+0x10/0x30 dev_seq_show from seq_read_iter+0x350/0x4ec seq_read_iter from seq_read+0xfc/0x194 seq_read from proc_reg_read+0xac/0x100 proc_reg_read from vfs_read+0xb0/0x2b0 vfs_read from ksys_read+0x6c/0xec ksys_read from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c Exception stack(0xf0b11fa8 to 0xf0b11ff0) 1fa0: 00000001 00001000 00000008 be9048d8 00001000 00000001 1fc0: 00000001 00001000 00000008 00000003 be905920 0000001e 00000000 00000001 1fe0: 0005404c be9048c0 00018684 b6ec2cd8

It seems that we are using a mutex in a atomic context which is wrong. Change the mutex with a spinlock.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007 to before cabb8cbeab49f4b74d78a91a277e00d4f6dd5d7dAffected
  • 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007 to before 5a5d2f7727752b64d13263eacd9f8d08a322e662Affected
  • 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007 to before c8ab03aa5bd9fd8bfe5d9552d8605826759fdd4dAffected
  • 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007 to before 3ac743c60ec502163c435712d527eeced8d83348Affected
  • 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007 to before 0216721ce71252f60d89af49c8dff613358058d3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.17Affected
  • before 5.17Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.117 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.58 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.17.8 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

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