gpio: pch: use raw_spinlock_t for the register lock (Linux Linux)
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: pch: use raw_spinlock_t for the register lock pch_irq_type() is registered as the irq_chip .irq_set_type callback and takes chip->spinlock with spin_lock_irqsave(). This callback is reached from __setup_irq() -> __irq_set_trigger() -> chip->irq_set_type() while the caller holds desc->lock, a raw_spinlock_t, with hardirqs disabled. That context is not sleepable, but on PREEMPT_RT a regular spinlock_t is an rtmutex-backed sleeping lock, so acquiring it there is invalid. This was confirmed on a PREEMPT_RT kernel with lockdep (PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING and DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP). A grounded PoC mirrored pch_irq_type()'s locking and drove it through the real genirq carrier irq_set_irq_type() -> __irq_set_trigger() -> chip->irq_set_type(), i.e. the same __irq_set_trigger() edge that __setup_irq() takes for a requested IRQ. With the original spin_lock_irqsave() edge lockdep reported an invalid wait context, immediately followed by: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 95, name: insmod hardirqs last disabled at (3784): _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4f/0x60 rt_spin_lock+0x3a/0x1c0 repro_irq_set_type+0x64/0xa0 [pch_repro] __irq_set_trigger+0x69/0x140 irq_set_irq_type+0x78/0xd0 Switching the mirrored lock to raw_spinlock_t made both splats go away. Convert the register lock to raw_spinlock_t. The same lock also serializes the GPIO direction/value callbacks and the suspend/resume register save/restore, but all of those critical sections only perform MMIO register accesses (ioread32()/iowrite32()) and irq_set_handler_locked(); none of them contain sleepable operations. Keeping this register lock non-sleeping is therefore appropriate for the irqchip callbacks and does not change the GPIO-side locking contract. This is the same class of issue and fix as recently addressed for other GPIO controllers, e.g. commit 286533cb14a3 ("gpio: sch: use raw_spinlock_t in the irq startup path") and commit 90f0109019e6 ("gpio: eic-sprd: use raw_spinlock_t in the irq startup path").
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efc76a3f5353dd33a2e2ad48200cd4a18de30a0d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/935e6872db7faecfbe1a10b3f5d97a62fdff5ec9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98f292cb6d01487d17988d9fd4e19c13e7adb156
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16da33cb36e663b6967112185e11d00ce8ff957c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff050589a21967883bb55f6dba42568f8367ad4a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/466ab0c41d5f54f71cee60619d07c4abd0ffd2cd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0a4ec89fc26e4b679b04f1002c503cb2529acdc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a02b8950d619123da64f69b70fe1dadef217dfe4
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-59661
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-74468
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1333 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux d'Ubuntu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1286 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux d'Ubuntu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1232 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Debian LTS · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1163 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Debian LTS · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1090 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Debian · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux · Linux | affected 38eb18a6f92da886fc1af509d25e8f7a49e23d9a < efc76a3f5353dd33a2e2ad48200cd4a18de30a0d ; affected 38eb18a6f92da886fc1af509d25e8f7a49e23d9a < 935e6872db7faecfbe1a10b3f5d97a62fdff5ec9 ; affected 38eb18a6f92da886fc1af509d25e8f7a49e23d9a < 98f292cb6d01487d17988d9fd4e19c13e7adb156 ; affected 38eb18a6f92da886fc1af509d25e8f7a49e23d9a < 16da33cb36e663b6967112185e11d00ce8ff957c ; affected 38eb18a6f92da886fc1af509d25e8f7a49e23d9a < ff050589a21967883bb55f6dba42568f8367ad4a ; affected 38eb18a6f92da886fc1af509d25e8f7a49e23d9a < 466ab0c41d5f54f71cee60619d07c4abd0ffd2cd |
| Linux · Linux | affected 3.2 ; unaffected 0 < 3.2 ; unaffected 5.10.265 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.216 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.183 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.151 ≤ 6.6.* |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |