CVE-2025-21871
Published: Mar 27, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tee: optee: Fix supplicant wait loop OP-TEE supplicant is a user-space daemon and it's possible for it be hung or crashed or killed in the middle of processing an OP-TEE RPC call. It becomes more complicated when there is incorrect shutdown ordering of the supplicant process vs the OP-TEE client application which can eventually lead to system hang-up waiting for the closure of the client application. Allow the client process waiting in kernel for supplicant response to be killed rather than indefinitely waiting in an unkillable state. Also, a normal uninterruptible wait should not have resulted in the hung-task watchdog getting triggered, but the endless loop would. This fixes issues observed during system reboot/shutdown when supplicant got hung for some reason or gets crashed/killed which lead to client getting hung in an unkillable state. It in turn lead to system being in hung up state requiring hard power off/on to recover.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 - < 3eb4911364c764572e9db4ab900a57689a54e8ceaffected 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 - < 0180cf0373f84fff61b16f8c062553a13dd7cfcaaffected 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 - < c0a9a948159153be145f9471435695373904ee6daffected 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 - < ec18520f5edc20a00c34a8c9fdd6507c355e880faffected 4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2 - < d61cc1a435e6894bfb0dd3370c6f765d2d12825d+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.12unaffected 0 - < 4.12unaffected 5.4.291 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.235 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.179 - <= 5.15.*+5 more versions |
References
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