Threats tagged 'ghsa-g72f-6g67-w739'

CVE-2025-38311 addresses a locking issue in the iavf driver of the Linux kernel. The vulnerability involves problematic locking logic related to the crit_lock, which could lead to deadlocks during certain operations such as VF removal. The fix replaces the crit_lock with the netdev_lock, which simplifies synchronization and avoids circular locking dependencies. This change resolves deadlock warnings reported by Lockdep and improves the scheduling and task handling within the iavf driver.