CVE-2025-21911

MEDIUM EPSS 3.1%
Published Apr 1, 20251y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
5.5 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Apr 1, 2025 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

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 ***

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.5
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
3.1% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-667

Affected Products 7

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.8  –  <6.12.19
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.13  –  <6.13.7
linuxlinux_kernel6.14any
linuxlinux_kernel6.14any
linuxlinux_kernel6.14any
linuxlinux_kernel6.14any
linuxlinux_kernel6.14any

References 3

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bd8b8d34cf4efba18766d64f817c819ed1bbde7
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d993ae7360923efd6ade43a32043459a121c28c1
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df1a1ed5e1bdd9cc13148e0e5549f5ebcf76cf13
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bd8b8d34cf4efba18766d64f817c819ed1bbde7
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d993ae7360923efd6ade43a32043459a121c28c1
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df1a1ed5e1bdd9cc13148e0e5549f5ebcf76cf13
    Patch