CVE-2025-21876
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 enable_drhd_fault_handling() to a code path that does not hold any lock while traversing the drhd list. Fix it by ensuring the dmar_global_lock lock is held when traversing the drhd list.
Holding the lock in enable_drhd_fault_handling() triggers a lockdep splat about a possible deadlock between dmar_global_lock and cpu_hotplug_lock. This is avoided by not holding dmar_global_lock when calling iommu_device_register(), which initiates the device probe process.
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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:
rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
2 locks held by cpuhp/1/23:
#0: ffffffff84a67c50 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x87/0x2c0
#1: ffffffff84a6a380 (cpuhp_state-up){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x87/0x2c0
stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 23 Comm: cpuhp/1 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3 #55
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xb7/0xd0
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x159/0x1f0
? __pfx_enable_drhd_fault_handling+0x10/0x10
enable_drhd_fault_handling+0x151/0x180
cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x1df/0x990
cpuhp_thread_fun+0x1ea/0x2c0
smpboot_thread_fn+0x1f5/0x2e0
? __pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x12a/0x2d0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x4a/0x60
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 5.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.21%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 10
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Referencias
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