drm/imagination: avoid deadlock on fence release (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-21911
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.15 % · percentile 5 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/imagination: avoid deadlock on fence release Do scheduler queue fence release processing on a workqueue, rather than in the release function itself. Fixes deadlock issues such as the following: [ 607.400437] ============================================ [ 607.405755] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected [ 607.415500] -------------------------------------------- [ 607.420817] weston:zfq0/24149 is trying to acquire lock: [ 607.426131] ffff000017d041a0 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pvr_gem_object_vunmap+0x40/0xc0 [powervr] [ 607.436728] but task is already holding lock: [ 607.442554] ffff000017d105a0 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: dma_buf_ioctl+0x250/0x554 [ 607.451727] other info that might help us debug this: [ 607.458245] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 607.464155] CPU0 [ 607.466601] ---- [ 607.469044] lock(reservation_ww_class_mutex); [ 607.473584] lock(reservation_ww_class_mutex); [ 607.478114] *** DEADLOCK ***

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected eaf01ee5ba28b97f96a3d3eec4c5fbfb37ee4cde < d993ae7360923efd6ade43a32043459a121c28c1 ; affected eaf01ee5ba28b97f96a3d3eec4c5fbfb37ee4cde < 9bd8b8d34cf4efba18766d64f817c819ed1bbde7 ; affected eaf01ee5ba28b97f96a3d3eec4c5fbfb37ee4cde < df1a1ed5e1bdd9cc13148e0e5549f5ebcf76cf13
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.8 ; unaffected 0 < 6.8 ; unaffected 6.12.19 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.13.7 ≤ 6.13.* ; unaffected 6.14 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD