CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21820
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- 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:
tty: xilinx_uartps: split sysrq handling
lockdep detects the following circular locking dependency:
CPU 0 CPU 1
========================== ============================
cdns_uart_isr() printk()
uart_port_lock(port) console_lock()
cdns_uart_console_write()
if (!port->sysrq)
uart_port_lock(port)
uart_handle_break()
port->sysrq = ...
uart_handle_sysrq_char()
printk()
console_lock()
The fixed commit attempts to avoid this situation by only taking the
port lock in cdns_uart_console_write if port->sysrq unset. However, if
(as shown above) cdns_uart_console_write runs before port->sysrq is set,
then it will try to take the port lock anyway. This may result in a
deadlock.
Fix this by splitting sysrq handling into two parts. We use the prepare
helper under the port lock and defer handling until we release the lock.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.6 < 6.1.129)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.78)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4410dba9807a17a93f649a9f5870ceaf30a675a3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ea0e7b3d7b8f2f0fc9db491ff22a0abe120801c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b88a7c4584ba67267a051069b8abe44fc9595b2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b06f388994500297bb91be60ffaf6825ecfd2afe Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de5bd24197bd9ee37ec1e379a3d882bbd15c5065 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e22a97700901ba5e8bf8db68056a0d50f9440cae git.kernel.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html lists.debian.org