Bug 2435642 (CVE-2025-71180) - CVE-2025-71180 kernel: counter: interrupt-cnt: Drop IRQF_NO_THREAD flag
Summary: CVE-2025-71180 kernel: counter: interrupt-cnt: Drop IRQF_NO_THREAD flag
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-71180
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-01-31 12:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-02-02 06:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-31 12:01:29 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

counter: interrupt-cnt: Drop IRQF_NO_THREAD flag

An IRQ handler can either be IRQF_NO_THREAD or acquire spinlock_t, as
CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING warns:
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[ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
6.18.0-rc1+git... #1
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some-user-space-process/1251 is trying to lock:
(&counter->events_list_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: counter_push_event [counter]
other info that might help us debug this:
context-{2:2}
no locks held by some-user-space-process/....
stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1251 Comm: some-user-space-process 6.18.0-rc1+git... #1 PREEMPT
Call trace:
 show_stack (C)
 dump_stack_lvl
 dump_stack
 __lock_acquire
 lock_acquire
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
 counter_push_event [counter]
 interrupt_cnt_isr [interrupt_cnt]
 __handle_irq_event_percpu
 handle_irq_event
 handle_simple_irq
 handle_irq_desc
 generic_handle_domain_irq
 gpio_irq_handler
 handle_irq_desc
 generic_handle_domain_irq
 gic_handle_irq
 call_on_irq_stack
 do_interrupt_handler
 el0_interrupt
 __el0_irq_handler_common
 el0t_64_irq_handler
 el0t_64_irq

... and Sebastian correctly points out. Remove IRQF_NO_THREAD as an
alternative to switching to raw_spinlock_t, because the latter would limit
all potential nested locks to raw_spinlock_t only.


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