CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38270

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's netdevsim driver, a bug causes napi_complete() to be called from netpoll context when NAPI is not scheduled, triggering a warning in napi_complete_done().

Risk Assessment

This bug may cause kernel warnings and potential issues with network packet processing in environments using netpoll.

Recommendation

Apply the kernel patch that prevents calling napi_complete() from netpoll.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: drv: netdevsim: don't napi_complete() from netpoll netdevsim supports netpoll. Make sure we don't call napi_complete() from it, since it may not be scheduled. Breno reports hitting a warning in napi_complete_done(): WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 104 at net/core/dev.c:6592 napi_complete_done+0x2cc/0x560 __napi_poll+0x2d8/0x3a0 handle_softirqs+0x1fe/0x710 This is presumably after netpoll stole the SCHED bit prematurely.

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