Bug 2363277 (CVE-2025-23161)

Summary: CVE-2025-23161 kernel: PCI: vmd: Make vmd_dev::cfg_lock a raw_spinlock_t type
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 14:01:49 UTC
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 <lgoncalv>
[kwilczynski: commit log]
[bhelgaas: add back report info from
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241218115951.83062-1-ryotkkr98@gmail.com/]

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 03:19:34 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050131-CVE-2025-23161-fb6d@gregkh/T