CVE-2025-21767
Published: Feb 27, 2025
Modified: May 23, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context The following bug report happened with a PREEMPT_RT kernel: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2012, name: kwatchdog preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 get_random_u32+0x4f/0x110 clocksource_verify_choose_cpus+0xab/0x1a0 clocksource_verify_percpu.part.0+0x6b/0x330 clocksource_watchdog_kthread+0x193/0x1a0 It is due to the fact that clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() is invoked with preemption disabled. This function invokes get_random_u32() to obtain random numbers for choosing CPUs. The batched_entropy_32 local lock and/or the base_crng.lock spinlock in driver/char/random.c will be acquired during the call. In PREEMPT_RT kernel, they are both sleeping locks and so cannot be acquired in atomic context. Fix this problem by using migrate_disable() to allow smp_processor_id() to be reliably used without introducing atomic context. preempt_disable() is then called after clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() but before the clocksource measurement is being run to avoid introducing unexpected latency.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected d9b40ebd448e437ffbc65f013836f98252279a82 - < d9c217fadfcff7a8df58567517d1e4253f3fd243affected 7560c02bdffb7c52d1457fa551b9e745d4b9e754 - < 60f54f0d4ea530950549a8263e6fdd70a40490a4affected 7560c02bdffb7c52d1457fa551b9e745d4b9e754 - < 852805b6cbdb69c298a8fc9fbe79994c95106e04affected 7560c02bdffb7c52d1457fa551b9e745d4b9e754 - < 8783ceeee797d9aa9cfe150690fb9d0bac8cc459affected 7560c02bdffb7c52d1457fa551b9e745d4b9e754 - < cc3d79e7c806cb57d71c28a4a35e7d7fb3265faa+7 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.14unaffected 0 - < 5.14unaffected 5.10.235 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.179 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.129 - <= 6.1.*+4 more versions |
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