In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

lan966x: Fix sleeping in atomic context

The following warning was seen when we try to connect using ssh to the device.

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:575
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 104, name: dropbear
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 104 Comm: dropbear Tainted: G W 6.18.0-rc2-00399-g6f1ab1b109b9-dirty #530 NONE
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Generic DT based system
Call trace:
unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14
show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x7c/0xac
dump_stack_lvl from __might_resched+0x16c/0x2b0
__might_resched from __mutex_lock+0x64/0xd34
__mutex_lock from mutex_lock_nested+0x1c/0x24
mutex_lock_nested from lan966x_stats_get+0x5c/0x558
lan966x_stats_get from dev_get_stats+0x40/0x43c
dev_get_stats from dev_seq_printf_stats+0x3c/0x184
dev_seq_printf_stats from dev_seq_show+0x10/0x30
dev_seq_show from seq_read_iter+0x350/0x4ec
seq_read_iter from seq_read+0xfc/0x194
seq_read from proc_reg_read+0xac/0x100
proc_reg_read from vfs_read+0xb0/0x2b0
vfs_read from ksys_read+0x6c/0xec
ksys_read from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c
Exception stack(0xf0b11fa8 to 0xf0b11ff0)
1fa0: 00000001 00001000 00000008 be9048d8 00001000 00000001
1fc0: 00000001 00001000 00000008 00000003 be905920 0000001e 00000000 00000001
1fe0: 0005404c be9048c0 00018684 b6ec2cd8

It seems that we are using a mutex in a atomic context which is wrong.
Change the mutex with a spinlock.
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Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:15:00 +0000


Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lan966x: Fix sleeping in atomic context The following warning was seen when we try to connect using ssh to the device. BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:575 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 104, name: dropbear preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 INFO: lockdep is turned off. CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 104 Comm: dropbear Tainted: G W 6.18.0-rc2-00399-g6f1ab1b109b9-dirty #530 NONE Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: Generic DT based system Call trace: unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14 show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x7c/0xac dump_stack_lvl from __might_resched+0x16c/0x2b0 __might_resched from __mutex_lock+0x64/0xd34 __mutex_lock from mutex_lock_nested+0x1c/0x24 mutex_lock_nested from lan966x_stats_get+0x5c/0x558 lan966x_stats_get from dev_get_stats+0x40/0x43c dev_get_stats from dev_seq_printf_stats+0x3c/0x184 dev_seq_printf_stats from dev_seq_show+0x10/0x30 dev_seq_show from seq_read_iter+0x350/0x4ec seq_read_iter from seq_read+0xfc/0x194 seq_read from proc_reg_read+0xac/0x100 proc_reg_read from vfs_read+0xb0/0x2b0 vfs_read from ksys_read+0x6c/0xec ksys_read from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c Exception stack(0xf0b11fa8 to 0xf0b11ff0) 1fa0: 00000001 00001000 00000008 be9048d8 00001000 00000001 1fc0: 00000001 00001000 00000008 00000003 be905920 0000001e 00000000 00000001 1fe0: 0005404c be9048c0 00018684 b6ec2cd8 It seems that we are using a mutex in a atomic context which is wrong. Change the mutex with a spinlock.
Title lan966x: Fix sleeping in atomic context
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-16T15:44:18.217Z

Reserved: 2025-12-16T14:48:05.295Z

Link: CVE-2025-68320

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Status : Received

Published: 2025-12-16T16:16:11.587

Modified: 2025-12-16T16:16:11.587

Link: CVE-2025-68320

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Severity :

Publid Date: 2025-12-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-68320 - Bugzilla

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