CVE-2025-38005 dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: Add missing locking
A missing lock in the TI K3 UDMA driver can cause a race condition, potentially leading to system instability or crashes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-38005?
CVE-2025-38005 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 18 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-38005?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2025-38005?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-38005 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38005 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-38005, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38005, GHSA-wqrx-c37g-3xqx, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-38005, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-38005, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38005 and 1 more.