bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Use pci_try_reset_function() to avoid deadlock (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-21951
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 5 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Use pci_try_reset_function() to avoid deadlock There are multiple places from where the recovery work gets scheduled asynchronously. Also, there are multiple places where the caller waits synchronously for the recovery to be completed. One such place is during the PM shutdown() callback. If the device is not alive during recovery_work, it will try to reset the device using pci_reset_function(). This function internally will take the device_lock() first before resetting the device. By this time, if the lock has already been acquired, then recovery_work will get stalled while waiting for the lock. And if the lock was already acquired by the caller which waits for the recovery_work to be completed, it will lead to deadlock. This is what happened on the X1E80100 CRD device when the device died before shutdown() callback. Driver core calls the driver's shutdown() callback while holding the device_lock() leading to deadlock. And this deadlock scenario can occur on other paths as well, like during the PM suspend() callback, where the driver core would hold the device_lock() before calling driver's suspend() callback. And if the recovery_work was already started, it could lead to deadlock. This is also observed on the X1E80100 CRD. So to fix both issues, use pci_try_reset_function() in recovery_work. This function first checks for the availability of the device_lock() before trying to reset the device. If the lock is available, it will acquire it and reset the device. Otherwise, it will return -EAGAIN. If that happens, recovery_work will fail with the error message "Recovery failed" as not much could be done.

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 7389337f0a78ea099c47f0af08f64f20c52ab4ba < 7746f3bb8917fccb4571a576f3837d80fc513054 ; affected 7389337f0a78ea099c47f0af08f64f20c52ab4ba < 7a5ffadd54fe2662f5c99cdccf30144d060376f7 ; affected 7389337f0a78ea099c47f0af08f64f20c52ab4ba < 1f9eb7078bc6b5fb5cbfbcb37c4bc01685332b95 ; affected 7389337f0a78ea099c47f0af08f64f20c52ab4ba < 985d3cf56d8745ca637deee273929e01df449f85 ; affected 7389337f0a78ea099c47f0af08f64f20c52ab4ba < 62505657475c245c9cd46e42ac01026d1e61f027 ; affected 7389337f0a78ea099c47f0af08f64f20c52ab4ba < a321d163de3d8aa38a6449ab2becf4b1581aed96
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.12 ; unaffected 0 < 5.12 ; unaffected 5.15.179 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.131 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.83 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.19 ≤ 6.12.*

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