CVE-2025-38287 (GCVE-0-2025-38287)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-10 07:42
Modified
2026-08-05 12:00
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/cm: Drop lockdep assert and WARN when freeing old msg The send completion handler can run after cm_id has advanced to another message. The cm_id lock is not needed in this case, but a recent change re-used cm_free_priv_msg(), which asserts that the lock is held and WARNs if the cm_id's currently outstanding msg is different than the one being freed.
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Linux Linux Version: 1e5159219076ddb2e44338c667c83fd1bd43dfef
Version: 1e5159219076ddb2e44338c667c83fd1bd43dfef
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