5.5

CVE-2025-21911

drm/imagination: avoid deadlock on fence release

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

drm/imagination: avoid deadlock on fence release

Do scheduler queue fence release processing on a workqueue, rather
than in the release function itself.

Fixes deadlock issues such as the following:

[  607.400437] ============================================
[  607.405755] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[  607.415500] --------------------------------------------
[  607.420817] weston:zfq0/24149 is trying to acquire lock:
[  607.426131] ffff000017d041a0 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pvr_gem_object_vunmap+0x40/0xc0 [powervr]
[  607.436728]
               but task is already holding lock:
[  607.442554] ffff000017d105a0 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: dma_buf_ioctl+0x250/0x554
[  607.451727]
               other info that might help us debug this:
[  607.458245]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[  607.464155]        CPU0
[  607.466601]        ----
[  607.469044]   lock(reservation_ww_class_mutex);
[  607.473584]   lock(reservation_ww_class_mutex);
[  607.478114]
                *** DEADLOCK ***
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.8 < 6.12.19
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.13.7
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc3
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc5
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.14% 0.038
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-667 Improper Locking

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bd8b8d34cf4efba18766d64f817c819ed1bbde7
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d993ae7360923efd6ade43a32043459a121c28c1
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df1a1ed5e1bdd9cc13148e0e5549f5ebcf76cf13
Patch