vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-38270: kernel: net: drv: netdevsim: don't napi_complete() from netpoll

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 10, 2025
Added
Jul 14, 2025
Modified
Jul 15, 2025

Description

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

net: drv: netdevsim: don't napi_complete() from netpoll

netdevsim supports netpoll. Make sure we don't call napi_complete()
from it, since it may not be scheduled. Breno reports hitting a
warning in napi_complete_done():

WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 104 at net/core/dev.c:6592 napi_complete_done+0x2cc/0x560
__napi_poll+0x2d8/0x3a0
handle_softirqs+0x1fe/0x710

This is presumably after netpoll stole the SCHED bit prematurely.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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