CVE-2025-38174

thunderbolt: Do not double dequeue a configuration request

published July 4, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

thunderbolt: Do not double dequeue a configuration request

Some of our devices crash in tb_cfg_request_dequeue():

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000122

CPU: 6 PID: 91007 Comm: kworker/6:2 Tainted: G U W 6.6.65

RIP: 0010:tb_cfg_request_dequeue+0x2d/0xa0

Call Trace:

<TASK>

? tb_cfg_request_dequeue+0x2d/0xa0

tb_cfg_request_work+0x33/0x80

worker_thread+0x386/0x8f0

kthread+0xed/0x110

ret_from_fork+0x38/0x50

ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30

The circumstances are unclear, however, the theory is that

tb_cfg_request_work() can be scheduled twice for a request:

first time via frame.callback from ring_work() and second

time from tb_cfg_request(). Both times kworkers will execute

tb_cfg_request_dequeue(), which results in double list_del()

from the ctl->request_queue (the list poison deference hints

at it: 0xdead000000000122).

Do not dequeue requests that don't have TB_CFG_REQUEST_ACTIVE

bit set.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00268 · 17.9th percentile
Published
2025-07-04T10:39Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 JUL 10:39Z
    thunderbolt: Do not double dequeue a configuration request
    cvelistv5