CVE-2025-37886 (GCVE-0-2025-37886)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-09 06:45 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:58
VLAI
Title
pds_core: make wait_context part of q_info
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pds_core: make wait_context part of q_info Make the wait_context a full part of the q_info struct rather than a stack variable that goes away after pdsc_adminq_post() is done so that the context is still available after the wait loop has given up. There was a case where a slow development firmware caused the adminq request to time out, but then later the FW finally finished the request and sent the interrupt. The handler tried to complete_all() the completion context that had been created on the stack in pdsc_adminq_post() but no longer existed. This caused bad pointer usage, kernel crashes, and much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 01ba61b55b2041a39c54aefb3153c770dd59a0ef , < 1d7c4b2b0bbfb09b55b2dc0e2355d7936bf89381 (git)
Affected: 01ba61b55b2041a39c54aefb3153c770dd59a0ef , < 66d7702b42ffdf0dce4808626088268a4e905ca6 (git)
Affected: 01ba61b55b2041a39c54aefb3153c770dd59a0ef , < 520f012fe75fb8efc9f16a57ef929a7a2115d892 (git)
Affected: 01ba61b55b2041a39c54aefb3153c770dd59a0ef , < 3f77c3dfffc7063428b100c4945ca2a7a8680380 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.89 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.26 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.5 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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