CVE-2025-38245 — atm: Release atm_dev_mutex after removing procfs in atm_dev_deregister().

Affected: Linux

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: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000…

USN-7774-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-i…

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-gcp-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-hwe-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-ibm-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-intel-iotg-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-aws, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gcp and 10 more

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - x86 architecture; - ACPI drivers; - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; - Drivers core; - ATA over ethernet (AOE) driver; - Network block device driver; - Bus devices; - Clock framework and drivers; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - EDAC drivers; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device (Miscellaneous) drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - VMware VMCI Driver; - MMC subsystem; - MTD block device drivers; - Network drivers; - Pin controllers subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - PTP clock framework; - RapidIO drivers; - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers; - Remote Processor subsystem; - S/390 drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - ASPEED SoC drivers; - TCM subsystem; - Thermal drivers; - Thunderbolt and USB4 drivers; - TTY drivers; - UFS subsystem; - USB Gadget drivers; - Renesas USBHS Controller drivers; - USB Type-C support driver; - Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem; - Backlight driver; - Framebuffer layer; - BTRFS file system; - File systems infrastructure; - Ext4 file system; - F2FS file system; - JFFS2 file system; - JFS file system; - Network file system (NFS) client; - Network file syst…

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CVE-2025-38245 — atm: Release atm_dev_mutex after removing procfs in atm_dev_deregister().

USN-7774-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-i…