CVE-2025-68333

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Deadlock in sched_ext deferred_irq_workfn

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched_ext: Fix possible deadlock in the deferred_irq_workfn() For PREEMPT_RT=y kernels, the deferred_irq_workfn() is executed in the per-cpu irq_work/* task context and not disable-irq, if the rq returned by container_of() is current CPU's rq, the following scenarios may occur: lock(&rq->__lock); <Interrupt> lock(&rq->__lock); This commit use IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD() to replace init_irq_work() to initialize rq->scx.deferred_irq_work, make the deferred_irq_workfn() is always invoked in hard-irq context.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 6.0%
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 (4)
linux/Kernel 6.12.0 - 6.12.68linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.12linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.18 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.12 - 6.12.68
Published Dec 22, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026