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Linux Linux — net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0045 37.8 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 97da99868573b8861de83f7126a5981d896c1d6c – —
Linux 6.0 – 6.1.138
TIMELINE
Apr 16 Reserved by Linux
May 20 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-37917 (Linux). CVSS 7.5 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll
Use spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore instead of spin_lock
and spin_unlock in mtk_star_emac driver to avoid spinlock recursion
occurrence that can happen when enabling the DMA interrupts again in
rx/tx poll.
```
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, swapper/0/0
lock: 0xffff00000db9cf20, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/0/0,
.owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
6.15.0-rc2-next-20250417-00001-gf6a27738686c-dirty #28 PREEMPT
Hardware name: MediaTek MT8365 Open Platform EVK (DT)
Call trace:
show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80
dump_stack+0x18/0x24
spin_dump+0x78/0x88
do_raw_spin_lock+0x11c/0x120
_raw_spin_lock+0x20/0x2c
mtk_star_handle_irq+0xc0/0x22c [mtk_star_emac]
__handle_irq_event_percpu+0x48/0x140
handle_irq_event+0x4c/0xb0
handle_fasteoi_irq+0xa0/0x1bc
handle_irq_desc+0x34/0x58
generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x28
gic_handle_irq+0x4c/0x120
do_interrupt_handler+0x50/0x84
el1_interrupt+0x34/0x68
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
regmap_mmio_read32le+0xc/0x20 (P)
_regmap_bus_reg_read+0x6c/0xac
_regmap_read+0x60/0xdc
regmap_read+0x4c/0x80
mtk_star_rx_poll+0x2f4/0x39c [mtk_star_emac]
__napi_poll+0x38/0x188
net_rx_action+0x164/0x2c0
handle_softirqs+0x100/0x244
__do_softirq+0x14/0x20
____do_softirq+0x10/0x20
call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x64
do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x40
__irq_exit_rcu+0xd4/0x10c
irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c
el1_interrupt+0x38/0x68
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
cpuidle_enter_state+0xac/0x320 (P)
cpuidle_enter+0x38/0x50
do_idle+0x1e4/0x260
cpu_startup_entry+0x34/0x3c
rest_init+0xdc/0xe0
console_on_rootfs+0x0/0x6c
__primary_switched+0x88/0x90
```
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| April 16, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| May 20, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-37917 (Linux). CVSS 7.5 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 97da99868573b8861de83f7126a5981d896c1d6c | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.0 | 6.1.138 |
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