CVE-2025-38356

Technical Description

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

drm/xe/guc: Explicitly exit CT safe mode on unwind

During driver probe we might be briefly using CT safe mode, which

is based on a delayed work, but usually we are able to stop this

once we have IRQ fully operational. However, if we abort the probe

quite early then during unwind we might try to destroy the workqueue

while there is still a pending delayed work that attempts to restart

itself which triggers a WARN.

This was recently observed during unsuccessful VF initialization:

[ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: probe with driver xe failed with error -62

[ ] ------------[ cut here ]------------

[ ] workqueue: cannot queue safe_mode_worker_func [xe] on wq xe-g2h-wq

[ ] WARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 0 at kernel/workqueue.c:2257 __queue_work+0x287/0x710

[ ] RIP: 0010:__queue_work+0x287/0x710

[ ] Call Trace:

[ ] delayed_work_timer_fn+0x19/0x30

[ ] call_timer_fn+0xa1/0x2a0

Exit the CT safe mode on unwind to avoid that warning.

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Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References