CVE: CVE-2025-38245
Published: 2025-07-09
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

atm: Release atm_dev_mutex after removing procfs in atm_dev_deregister().

syzbot reported a warning below during atm_dev_register(). [0]

Before creating a new device and procfs/sysfs for it, atm_dev_register()
looks up a duplicated device by __atm_dev_lookup().  These operations are
done under atm_dev_mutex.

However, when removing a device in atm_dev_deregister(), it releases the
mutex just after removing the device from the list that __atm_dev_lookup()
iterates over.

So, there will be a small race window where the device does not exist on
the device list but procfs/sysfs are still not removed, triggering the
splat.

Let's hold the mutex until procfs/sysfs are removed in
atm_dev_deregister().

[0]:
proc_dir_entry 'atm/atmtcp:0' already registered
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5919 at fs/proc/generic.c:377 proc_register+0x455/0x5f0 fs/proc/generic.c:377
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5919 Comm: syz-executor284 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc2-syzkaller-00047-g52da431bf03b #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
RIP: 0010:proc_register+0x455/0x5f0 fs/proc/generic.c:377
Code: 48 89 f9 48 c1 e9 03 80 3c 01 00 0f 85 a2 01 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 48 c7 c7 20 c0 c2 8b 48 8b b0 d8 00 00 00 e8 0c 02 1c ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 90 48 c7 c7 80 f2 82 8e e8 0b de 23 09 48 8b 4c 24 28 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000466fa30 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: ffffffff817ae248
RDX: ffff[PII_REDACTED]00 RSI: ffffffff817ae255 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP: ffff8880232bed48 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: [PII_REDACTED]
R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: ffff888076ed2140
R13: dffffc[PII_REDACTED] R14: ffff888078a61340 R15: ffffed100edda444
FS:  00007f38b3b0c6c0(0000) GS:ffff[PII_REDACTED]00(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
CR2: 00007f38b3bdf953 CR3:[PII_REDACTED]d58000 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]3526f0
DR0: [PII_REDACTED] DR1: [PII_REDACTED] DR2: [PII_REDACTED]
DR3: [PII_REDACTED] DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: [PII_REDACTED]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 proc_create_data+0xbe/0x110 fs/proc/generic.c:585
 atm_proc_dev_register+0x112/0x1e0 net/atm/proc.c:361
 atm_dev_register+0x46d/0x890 net/atm/resources.c:113
 atmtcp_create+0x77/0x210 drivers/atm/atmtcp.c:369
 atmtcp_attach drivers/atm/atmtcp.c:403 [inline]
 atmtcp_ioctl+0x2f9/0xd60 drivers/atm/atmtcp.c:464
 do_vcc_ioctl+0x12c/0x930 net/atm/ioctl.c:159
 sock_do_ioctl+0x115/0x280 net/socket.c:1190
 sock_ioctl+0x227/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1311
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18b/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:893
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f38b3b74459
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 51 18 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f38b3b0c198 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: [PII_REDACTED]
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f38b3bfe318 RCX: 00007f38b3b74459
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP: 00007f38b3bfe310 R08: 65732f636f72702f R09: 65732f636f72702f
R10: 65732f636f72702f R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: 00007f38b3bcb0ac
R13: 00007f38b3b0c1a0 R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: 00007f38b3bcb03b
 </TASK>
CVSS Score: 7.8 (HIGH)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26248d5d68c865b888d632162abbf[PII_REDACTED]c; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a8dcee649d12f69713f2589171a1caf6d4fa439; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bb1bb438134d9ee6b97cc07289dd7c569092eec