CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38335
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-07-10
- 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:
Input: gpio-keys - fix a sleep while atomic with PREEMPT_RT
When enabling PREEMPT_RT, the gpio_keys_irq_timer() callback runs in
hard irq context, but the input_event() takes a spin_lock, which isn't
allowed there as it is converted to a rt_spin_lock().
[ 4054.289999] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
[ 4054.290028] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/0
...
[ 4054.290195] __might_resched+0x13c/0x1f4
[ 4054.290209] rt_spin_lock+0x54/0x11c
[ 4054.290219] input_event+0x48/0x80
[ 4054.290230] gpio_keys_irq_timer+0x4c/0x78
[ 4054.290243] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1a4/0x438
[ 4054.290257] hrtimer_interrupt+0xe4/0x240
[ 4054.290269] arch_timer_handler_phys+0x2c/0x44
[ 4054.290283] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x8c/0x14c
[ 4054.290297] handle_irq_desc+0x40/0x58
[ 4054.290307] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x28
[ 4054.290316] gic_handle_irq+0x44/0xcc
Considering the gpio_keys_irq_isr() can run in any context, e.g. it can
be threaded, it seems there's no point in requesting the timer isr to
run in hard irq context.
Relax the hrtimer not to use the hard context.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.148)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.101)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.41)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.4)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/664e5a6f541ff226621487d1280d2ec28e86be28 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7b79db25846459de63ca8974268f0c41c734c4b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8f01e51109f77229e426b57c5d19251b462c6aa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec8f5da79b425deef5aebacdd4fe645620cd4f0b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4a8f561d08e39f7833d4a278ebfb12a41eef15f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa53beab4740c4e5fe969f218a379f9558be33dc Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory