Bug 2391072 (CVE-2025-38521) - CVE-2025-38521 kernel: drm/imagination: Fix kernel crash when hard resetting the GPU
Summary: CVE-2025-38521 kernel: drm/imagination: Fix kernel crash when hard resetting ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38521
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-08-26 15:10 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-04 07:58 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-26 15:10:12 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/imagination: Fix kernel crash when hard resetting the GPU

The GPU hard reset sequence calls pm_runtime_force_suspend() and
pm_runtime_force_resume(), which according to their documentation should
only be used during system-wide PM transitions to sleep states.

The main issue though is that depending on some internal runtime PM
state as seen by pm_runtime_force_suspend() (whether the usage count is
<= 1), pm_runtime_force_resume() might not resume the device unless
needed. If that happens, the runtime PM resume callback
pvr_power_device_resume() is not called, the GPU clocks are not
re-enabled, and the kernel crashes on the next attempt to access GPU
registers as part of the power-on sequence.

Replace calls to pm_runtime_force_suspend() and
pm_runtime_force_resume() with direct calls to the driver's runtime PM
callbacks, pvr_power_device_suspend() and pvr_power_device_resume(),
to ensure clocks are re-enabled and avoid the kernel crash.


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