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Linux Linux — dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: Add missing locking
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0019 8.5 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 25dcb5dd7b7ce5587c1df18f584ff78f51a68a94 – —
Linux 5.6 – 5.10.238
TIMELINE
Apr 16 Reserved by Linux
Jun 18 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-38005 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: Add missing locking
Recent kernels complain about a missing lock in k3-udma.c when the lock
validator is enabled:
[ 4.128073] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 746 at drivers/dma/ti/../virt-dma.h:169 udma_start.isra.0+0x34/0x238
[ 4.137352] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 746 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted 6.12.9-arm64 #28
[ 4.144867] Hardware name: pp-v12 (DT)
[ 4.148648] Workqueue: events udma_check_tx_completion
[ 4.153841] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 4.160834] pc : udma_start.isra.0+0x34/0x238
[ 4.165227] lr : udma_start.isra.0+0x30/0x238
[ 4.169618] sp : ffffffc083cabcf0
[ 4.172963] x29: ffffffc083cabcf0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffffff800001b005
[ 4.180167] x26: ffffffc0812f0000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
[ 4.187370] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 00000000e21eabe9 x21: ffffff8000fa0670
[ 4.194571] x20: ffffff8001b6bf00 x19: ffffff8000fa0430 x18: ffffffc083b95030
[ 4.201773] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 00000000f0000000 x15: 0000000000000048
[ 4.208976] x14: 0000000000000048 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000001
[ 4.216179] x11: ffffffc08151a240 x10: 0000000000003ea1 x9 : ffffffc08046ab68
[ 4.223381] x8 : ffffffc083cabac0 x7 : ffffffc081df3718 x6 : 0000000000029fc8
[ 4.230583] x5 : ffffffc0817ee6d8 x4 : 0000000000000bc0 x3 : 0000000000000000
[ 4.237784] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 00000000001fffff x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 4.244986] Call trace:
[ 4.247463] udma_start.isra.0+0x34/0x238
[ 4.251509] udma_check_tx_completion+0xd0/0xdc
[ 4.256076] process_one_work+0x244/0x3fc
[ 4.260129] process_scheduled_works+0x6c/0x74
[ 4.264610] worker_thread+0x150/0x1dc
[ 4.268398] kthread+0xd8/0xe8
[ 4.271492] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[ 4.275107] irq event stamp: 220
[ 4.278363] hardirqs last enabled at (219): [<ffffffc080a27c7c>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x38/0x50
[ 4.287183] hardirqs last disabled at (220): [<ffffffc080a1c154>] el1_dbg+0x24/0x50
[ 4.294879] softirqs last enabled at (182): [<ffffffc080037e68>] handle_softirqs+0x1c0/0x3cc
[ 4.303437] softirqs last disabled at (177): [<ffffffc080010170>] __do_softirq+0x1c/0x28
[ 4.311559] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
This commit adds the missing locking.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| April 16, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| June 18, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-38005 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 25dcb5dd7b7ce5587c1df18f584ff78f51a68a94 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5.6 | 5.10.238 |
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