CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21767
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-667
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context
The following bug report happened with a PREEMPT_RT kernel:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2012, name: kwatchdog
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
get_random_u32+0x4f/0x110
clocksource_verify_choose_cpus+0xab/0x1a0
clocksource_verify_percpu.part.0+0x6b/0x330
clocksource_watchdog_kthread+0x193/0x1a0
It is due to the fact that clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() is invoked with
preemption disabled. This function invokes get_random_u32() to obtain
random numbers for choosing CPUs. The batched_entropy_32 local lock and/or
the base_crng.lock spinlock in driver/char/random.c will be acquired during
the call. In PREEMPT_RT kernel, they are both sleeping locks and so cannot
be acquired in atomic context.
Fix this problem by using migrate_disable() to allow smp_processor_id() to
be reliably used without introducing atomic context. preempt_disable() is
then called after clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() but before the
clocksource measurement is being run to avoid introducing unexpected
latency.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.50 < 5.10.235)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.12.17 < 5.13)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13.2 < 5.15.179)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.129)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.79)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.4)
• linux linux kernel 6.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fb534187d2355f6c8f995321e76d1ccd1262ac1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60f54f0d4ea530950549a8263e6fdd70a40490a4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bb05a33337b2c842373857b63de5c9bf1ae2a09 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/852805b6cbdb69c298a8fc9fbe79994c95106e04 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8783ceeee797d9aa9cfe150690fb9d0bac8cc459 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc3d79e7c806cb57d71c28a4a35e7d7fb3265faa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9c217fadfcff7a8df58567517d1e4253f3fd243 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html lists.debian.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com