CVE-2025-21876

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21876
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21876.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21876
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-03-27T14:57:06Z
Modified
2025-10-15T22:29:19.138916Z
Summary
iommu/vt-d: Fix suspicious RCU usage
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iommu/vt-d: Fix suspicious RCU usage

Commit <d74169ceb0d2> ("iommu/vt-d: Allocate DMAR fault interrupts locally") moved the call to enabledrhdfaulthandling() to a code path that does not hold any lock while traversing the drhd list. Fix it by ensuring the dmarglobal_lock lock is held when traversing the drhd list.

Without this fix, the following warning is triggered: ============================= WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 6.14.0-rc3 #55 Not tainted


drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c:2046 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!! other info that might help us debug this: rcuscheduleractive = 1, debuglocks = 1 2 locks held by cpuhp/1/23: #0: ffffffff84a67c50 (cpuhotpluglock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuhpthreadfun+0x87/0x2c0 #1: ffffffff84a6a380 (cpuhpstate-up){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: cpuhpthreadfun+0x87/0x2c0 stack backtrace: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 23 Comm: cpuhp/1 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3 #55 Call Trace: <TASK> dumpstacklvl+0xb7/0xd0 lockdeprcususpicious+0x159/0x1f0 ? _pfxenabledrhdfaulthandling+0x10/0x10 enabledrhdfaulthandling+0x151/0x180 cpuhpinvokecallback+0x1df/0x990 cpuhpthreadfun+0x1ea/0x2c0 smpbootthreadfn+0x1f5/0x2e0 ? _pfxsmpbootthreadfn+0x10/0x10 kthread+0x12a/0x2d0 ? _pfxkthread+0x10/0x10 retfromfork+0x4a/0x60 ? _pfxkthread+0x10/0x10 retfromfork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK>

Holding the lock in enabledrhdfaulthandling() triggers a lockdep splat about a possible deadlock between dmargloballock and cpuhotpluglock. This is avoided by not holding dmargloballock when calling iommudevice_register(), which initiates the device probe process.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
d74169ceb0d2e32438946a2f1f9fc8c803304bd6
Fixed
4117c72938493a77ab53cc4b8284be8fb6ec8065
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
d74169ceb0d2e32438946a2f1f9fc8c803304bd6
Fixed
c603ccbe91d189849e1439134598ec567088dcec
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
d74169ceb0d2e32438946a2f1f9fc8c803304bd6
Fixed
b150654f74bf0df8e6a7936d5ec51400d9ec06d8

Affected versions

v6.*

v6.10
v6.10-rc1
v6.10-rc2
v6.10-rc3
v6.10-rc4
v6.10-rc5
v6.10-rc6
v6.10-rc7
v6.11
v6.11-rc1
v6.11-rc2
v6.11-rc3
v6.11-rc4
v6.11-rc5
v6.11-rc6
v6.11-rc7
v6.12
v6.12-rc1
v6.12-rc2
v6.12-rc3
v6.12-rc4
v6.12-rc5
v6.12-rc6
v6.12-rc7
v6.12.1
v6.12.10
v6.12.11
v6.12.12
v6.12.13
v6.12.14
v6.12.15
v6.12.16
v6.12.17
v6.12.2
v6.12.3
v6.12.4
v6.12.5
v6.12.6
v6.12.7
v6.12.8
v6.12.9
v6.13
v6.13-rc1
v6.13-rc2
v6.13-rc3
v6.13-rc4
v6.13-rc5
v6.13-rc6
v6.13-rc7
v6.13.1
v6.13.2
v6.13.3
v6.13.4
v6.13.5
v6.14-rc1
v6.14-rc2
v6.14-rc3
v6.14-rc4
v6.9
v6.9-rc6
v6.9-rc7

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.10.0
Fixed
6.12.18
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.13.6