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CVE-2025-37875

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CVE-2025-37875

Published: May 9, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: igc: fix PTM cycle trigger logic Writing to clear the PTM status 'valid' bit while the PTM cycle is triggered results in unreliable PTM operation. To fix this, clear the PTM 'trigger' and status after each PTM transaction. The issue can be reproduced with the following: $ sudo phc2sys -R 1000 -O 0 -i tsn0 -m Note: 1000 Hz (-R 1000) is unrealistically large, but provides a way to quickly reproduce the issue. PHC2SYS exits with: "ioctl PTP_OFFSET_PRECISE: Connection timed out" when the PTM transaction fails This patch also fixes a hang in igc_probe() when loading the igc driver in the kdump kernel on systems supporting PTM. The igc driver running in the base kernel enables PTM trigger in igc_probe(). Therefore the driver is always in PTM trigger mode, except in brief periods when manually triggering a PTM cycle. When a crash occurs, the NIC is reset while PTM trigger is enabled. Due to a hardware problem, the NIC is subsequently in a bad busmaster state and doesn't handle register reads/writes. When running igc_probe() in the kdump kernel, the first register access to a NIC register hangs driver probing and ultimately breaks kdump. With this patch, igc has PTM trigger disabled most of the time, and the trigger is only enabled for very brief (10 - 100 us) periods when manually triggering a PTM cycle. Chances that a crash occurs during a PTM trigger are not 0, but extremely reduced.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
a90ec84837325df4b9a6798c2cc0df202b5680bd - < c1f174edaccc5a00f8e218c42a0aa9156efd5f76
affected
a90ec84837325df4b9a6798c2cc0df202b5680bd - < 0c03e4fbe1321697d9d04587e21e416705e1b19f
affected
a90ec84837325df4b9a6798c2cc0df202b5680bd - < 16194ca3f3b4448a062650c869a7b3b206c6f5d3
affected
a90ec84837325df4b9a6798c2cc0df202b5680bd - < f3516229cd12dcd45f23ed01adab17e8772b1bd5
affected
a90ec84837325df4b9a6798c2cc0df202b5680bd - < 31959e06143692f7e02b8eef7d7d6ac645637906

+1 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
5.15
unaffected
0 - < 5.15
unaffected
5.15.181 - <= 5.15.*
unaffected
6.1.135 - <= 6.1.*
unaffected
6.6.88 - <= 6.6.*

+3 more versions

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