CVE-2025-38101 (GCVE-0-2025-38101)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:35 – Updated: 2025-07-28 04:12
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Title
ring-buffer: Fix buffer locking in ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ring-buffer: Fix buffer locking in ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() Enlarge the critical section in ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() to ensure that error handling takes place with per-buffer mutex held, thus preventing list corruption and other concurrency-related issues.
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Linux Linux Affected: f9b94daa542a8d2532f0930f01cd9aec2d19621b , < e09c0600beea469b3ebf974464e526a02d59ad62 (git)
Affected: f9b94daa542a8d2532f0930f01cd9aec2d19621b , < 0fc9a295cd8e59c3636e97395e7c74a9c89fee42 (git)
Affected: f9b94daa542a8d2532f0930f01cd9aec2d19621b , < 40ee2afafc1d9fe3aa44a6fbe440d78a5c96a72e (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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