linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-21876: iommu/vt-d: Fix suspicious RCU usage

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Message-ID: <2025032710-CVE-2025-21876-6c2f@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:58:10 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-21876: iommu/vt-d: Fix suspicious RCU usage

Description
===========

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

iommu/vt-d: Fix suspicious RCU usage

Commit <d74169ceb0d2> ("iommu/vt-d: Allocate DMAR fault interrupts
locally") moved the call to enable_drhd_fault_handling() to a code
path that does not hold any lock while traversing the drhd list. Fix
it by ensuring the dmar_global_lock lock is held when traversing the
drhd list.

Without this fix, the following warning is triggered:
 =============================
 WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
 6.14.0-rc3 #55 Not tainted
 -----------------------------
 drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c:2046 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
               other info that might help us debug this:
               rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
 2 locks held by cpuhp/1/23:
 #0: ffffffff84a67c50 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x87/0x2c0
 #1: ffffffff84a6a380 (cpuhp_state-up){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x87/0x2c0
 stack backtrace:
 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 23 Comm: cpuhp/1 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3 #55
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0xb7/0xd0
  lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x159/0x1f0
  ? __pfx_enable_drhd_fault_handling+0x10/0x10
  enable_drhd_fault_handling+0x151/0x180
  cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x1df/0x990
  cpuhp_thread_fun+0x1ea/0x2c0
  smpboot_thread_fn+0x1f5/0x2e0
  ? __pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10
  kthread+0x12a/0x2d0
  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork+0x4a/0x60
  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
  </TASK>

Holding the lock in enable_drhd_fault_handling() triggers a lockdep splat
about a possible deadlock between dmar_global_lock and cpu_hotplug_lock.
This is avoided by not holding dmar_global_lock when calling
iommu_device_register(), which initiates the device probe process.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-21876 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.10 with commit d74169ceb0d2e32438946a2f1f9fc8c803304bd6 and fixed in 6.12.18 with commit 4117c72938493a77ab53cc4b8284be8fb6ec8065
	Issue introduced in 6.10 with commit d74169ceb0d2e32438946a2f1f9fc8c803304bd6 and fixed in 6.13.6 with commit c603ccbe91d189849e1439134598ec567088dcec
	Issue introduced in 6.10 with commit d74169ceb0d2e32438946a2f1f9fc8c803304bd6 and fixed in 6.14 with commit b150654f74bf0df8e6a7936d5ec51400d9ec06d8

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-21876
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c
	drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4117c72938493a77ab53cc4b8284be8fb6ec8065
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c603ccbe91d189849e1439134598ec567088dcec
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b150654f74bf0df8e6a7936d5ec51400d9ec06d8