CVE-2025-23161

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.15.181 - Improper Locking

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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]/]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 12.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (8)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 4.5.0 - 5.15.181linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.135linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.12linux
linux/Kernel 6.14.0 - 6.14.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.88linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.24linux
linux/linux_kernel < 5.15.181
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026