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CVE-2025-38039 (GCVE-0-2025-38039)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 09:33 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:20
VLAI
Title
net/mlx5e: Avoid WARN_ON when configuring MQPRIO with HTB offload enabled
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Avoid WARN_ON when configuring MQPRIO with HTB offload enabled When attempting to enable MQPRIO while HTB offload is already configured, the driver currently returns `-EINVAL` and triggers a `WARN_ON`, leading to an unnecessary call trace. Update the code to handle this case more gracefully by returning `-EOPNOTSUPP` instead, while also providing a helpful user message.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 214baf22870cfa437522f3bd4fbae56338674b04 , < 090c0ba179eaf7b670e720aa054533756a43d565 (git)
Affected: 214baf22870cfa437522f3bd4fbae56338674b04 , < b82e496531c571caf8a2ef247f51c160bab2162e (git)
Affected: 214baf22870cfa437522f3bd4fbae56338674b04 , < 9e2bac6835f73895598df5a3a125a19497fad46b (git)
Affected: 214baf22870cfa437522f3bd4fbae56338674b04 , < 689805dcc474c2accb5cffbbcea1c06ee4a54570 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.93 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.31 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.9 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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