GHSA-Q3V6-CHW5-G495
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-01 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-05 18:14In 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 lgoncalv@redhat.com [kwilczynski: commit log] [bhelgaas: add back report info from https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241218115951.83062-1-ryotkkr98@gmail.com/]
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-23161"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-667"
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"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-05-01T13:15:52Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
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"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPCI: vmd: Make vmd_dev::cfg_lock a raw_spinlock_t type\n\nThe access to the PCI config space via pci_ops::read and pci_ops::write is\na low-level hardware access. The functions can be accessed with disabled\ninterrupts even on PREEMPT_RT. The pci_lock is a raw_spinlock_t for this\npurpose.\n\nA spinlock_t becomes a sleeping lock on PREEMPT_RT, so it cannot be\nacquired with disabled interrupts. The vmd_dev::cfg_lock is accessed in\nthe same context as the pci_lock.\n\nMake vmd_dev::cfg_lock a raw_spinlock_t type so it can be used with\ninterrupts disabled.\n\nThis was reported as:\n\n BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48\n Call Trace:\n rt_spin_lock+0x4e/0x130\n vmd_pci_read+0x8d/0x100 [vmd]\n pci_user_read_config_byte+0x6f/0xe0\n pci_read_config+0xfe/0x290\n sysfs_kf_bin_read+0x68/0x90\n\n[bigeasy: reword commit message]\nTested-off-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves \u003clgoncalv@redhat.com\u003e\n[kwilczynski: commit log]\n[bhelgaas: add back report info from\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241218115951.83062-1-ryotkkr98@gmail.com/]",
"id": "GHSA-q3v6-chw5-g495",
"modified": "2025-11-05T18:14:26Z",
"published": "2025-05-01T15:31:41Z",
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"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html"
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
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