gpio: tegra: do not call pinctrl for GPIO direction (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72063
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 13 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: tegra: do not call pinctrl for GPIO direction tegra_gpio_direction_input() and tegra_gpio_direction_output() already program the GPIO controller direction registers directly. The additional pinctrl_gpio_direction_input/output() calls do not add a Tegra pinctrl operation, because the Tegra pinmux ops provide GPIO request/free handling but no gpio_set_direction hook. The extra call still enters the pinctrl core and takes pctldev->mutex. Shared GPIO users can call the direction path while holding their per-line spinlock, so this otherwise redundant pinctrl direction call can sleep in an atomic context. This was found by our static analysis tool and then confirmed by manual review of tegra_gpio_probe(), the Tegra GPIO direction callbacks and the Tegra pinctrl ops. The reviewed path has a default non-sleeping struct gpio_chip while the direction callback still enters the pinctrl mutex path. A directed runtime validation kept the same non-sleeping chip registration and drove: gpio_shared_proxy_direction_output() gpiod_direction_output_raw_commit() tegra_gpio_direction_output() pinctrl_gpio_direction_output() Lockdep reported a sleep-in-atomic warning with the shared GPIO spinlock held and pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range() plus tegra_gpio_direction_output() on the stack. Do not mark the whole chip as can_sleep to paper over this: can_sleep describes whether get()/set() may sleep, and Tegra value access is MMIO. Remove the redundant pinctrl direction calls and keep pinctrl involvement in the existing request/free path.

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CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc < 89904b4f1dc0f9550c3f206dcdfceed0b7ce7c49 ; affected 11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc < d3b92d16e1c4debec7526b6dbb2d98d0aeed796b ; affected 11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc < 616188becd4a208afbae1653fc5241e1748bae80 ; affected 11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc < e57a4845b0da60a7b9f052160878097826320954 ; affected 11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc < cd17c5a1d9f186b57e9e2949be427803b7110a5c ; affected 11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc < ac761e66708d51dac35c4c7f1891ea991dc788f0
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.1 ; unaffected 0 < 5.1 ; unaffected 5.10.266 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.217 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.184 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.148 ≤ 6.6.*

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