CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-23161
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- 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:
PCI: vmd: Make vmd_dev::cfg_lock a raw_spinlock_t type
The access to the PCI config space via pci_ops::read and pci_ops::write is
a low-level hardware access. The functions can be accessed with disabled
interrupts even on PREEMPT_RT. The pci_lock is a raw_spinlock_t for this
purpose.
A spinlock_t becomes a sleeping lock on PREEMPT_RT, so it cannot be
acquired with disabled interrupts. The vmd_dev::cfg_lock is accessed in
the same context as the pci_lock.
Make vmd_dev::cfg_lock a raw_spinlock_t type so it can be used with
interrupts disabled.
This was reported as:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
Call Trace:
rt_spin_lock+0x4e/0x130
vmd_pci_read+0x8d/0x100 [vmd]
pci_user_read_config_byte+0x6f/0xe0
pci_read_config+0xfe/0x290
sysfs_kf_bin_read+0x68/0x90
[bigeasy: reword commit message]
Tested-off-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <[email protected]>
[kwilczynski: commit log]
[bhelgaas: add back report info from
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.15.181)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.135)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.88)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.24)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.12)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.14 < 6.14.3)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13e5148f70e81991acbe0bab5b1b50ba699116e7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18056a48669a040bef491e63b25896561ee14d90 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20d0a9062c031068fa39f725a32f182b709b5525 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2358046ead696ca5c7c628d6c0e2c6792619a3e5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c3cfcf0b4bf43530788b08a8eaf7896ec567484 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c250262d6485ca333e9821f85b07eb383ec546b1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2968c812339593ac6e2bdd5cc3adabe3f05fa53 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html Mailing List