Bug 2379245 (CVE-2025-38335) - CVE-2025-38335 kernel: Input: gpio-keys - fix a sleep while atomic with PREEMPT_RT
Summary: CVE-2025-38335 kernel: Input: gpio-keys - fix a sleep while atomic with PREEM...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38335
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-07-10 09:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-11 05:36 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-10 09:02:35 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Input: gpio-keys - fix a sleep while atomic with PREEMPT_RT

When enabling PREEMPT_RT, the gpio_keys_irq_timer() callback runs in
hard irq context, but the input_event() takes a spin_lock, which isn't
allowed there as it is converted to a rt_spin_lock().

[ 4054.289999] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
[ 4054.290028] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/0
...
[ 4054.290195]  __might_resched+0x13c/0x1f4
[ 4054.290209]  rt_spin_lock+0x54/0x11c
[ 4054.290219]  input_event+0x48/0x80
[ 4054.290230]  gpio_keys_irq_timer+0x4c/0x78
[ 4054.290243]  __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1a4/0x438
[ 4054.290257]  hrtimer_interrupt+0xe4/0x240
[ 4054.290269]  arch_timer_handler_phys+0x2c/0x44
[ 4054.290283]  handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x8c/0x14c
[ 4054.290297]  handle_irq_desc+0x40/0x58
[ 4054.290307]  generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x28
[ 4054.290316]  gic_handle_irq+0x44/0xcc

Considering the gpio_keys_irq_isr() can run in any context, e.g. it can
be threaded, it seems there's no point in requesting the timer isr to
run in hard irq context.

Relax the hrtimer not to use the hard context.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-11 05:27:57 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025071034-CVE-2025-38335-b96e@gregkh/T


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