linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-37993: can: m_can: m_can_class_allocate_dev(): initialize spin lock on device probe

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Message-ID: <2025052959-CVE-2025-37993-5c67@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 15:16:00 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-37993: can: m_can: m_can_class_allocate_dev(): initialize spin lock on device probe

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

can: m_can: m_can_class_allocate_dev(): initialize spin lock on device probe

The spin lock tx_handling_spinlock in struct m_can_classdev is not
being initialized. This leads the following spinlock bad magic
complaint from the kernel, eg. when trying to send CAN frames with
cansend from can-utils:

| BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, cansend/95
|  lock: 0xff60000002ec1010, .magic: 00000000, .owner: <none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
| CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 95 Comm: cansend Not tainted 6.15.0-rc3-00032-ga79be02bba5c #5 NONE
| Hardware name: MachineWare SIM-V (DT)
| Call Trace:
| [<ffffffff800133e0>] dump_backtrace+0x1c/0x24
| [<ffffffff800022f2>] show_stack+0x28/0x34
| [<ffffffff8000de3e>] dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x68
| [<ffffffff8000de70>] dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
| [<ffffffff80003134>] spin_dump+0x62/0x6e
| [<ffffffff800883ba>] do_raw_spin_lock+0xd0/0x142
| [<ffffffff807a6fcc>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x20/0x2c
| [<ffffffff80536dba>] m_can_start_xmit+0x90/0x34a
| [<ffffffff806148b0>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0xa6/0xee
| [<ffffffff8065b730>] sch_direct_xmit+0x114/0x292
| [<ffffffff80614e2a>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x3b0/0xaa8
| [<ffffffff8073b8fa>] can_send+0xc6/0x242
| [<ffffffff8073d1c0>] raw_sendmsg+0x1a8/0x36c
| [<ffffffff805ebf06>] sock_write_iter+0x9a/0xee
| [<ffffffff801d06ea>] vfs_write+0x184/0x3a6
| [<ffffffff801d0a88>] ksys_write+0xa0/0xc0
| [<ffffffff801d0abc>] __riscv_sys_write+0x14/0x1c
| [<ffffffff8079ebf8>] do_trap_ecall_u+0x168/0x212
| [<ffffffff807a830a>] handle_exception+0x146/0x152

Initializing the spin lock in m_can_class_allocate_dev solves that
problem.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-37993 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.9 with commit 1fa80e23c15051edc1c594270517de3517ded798 and fixed in 6.12.29 with commit 2ecce25ea296f328d79070ee36229a15aeeb7aca
	Issue introduced in 6.9 with commit 1fa80e23c15051edc1c594270517de3517ded798 and fixed in 6.14.7 with commit 7d5379cfecfdd665e4206bc4f19824656388779f
	Issue introduced in 6.9 with commit 1fa80e23c15051edc1c594270517de3517ded798 and fixed in 6.15 with commit dcaeeb8ae84c5506ebc574732838264f3887738c

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-37993
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ecce25ea296f328d79070ee36229a15aeeb7aca
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d5379cfecfdd665e4206bc4f19824656388779f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcaeeb8ae84c5506ebc574732838264f3887738c