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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Feb 10, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 21, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

drm/v3d: Assign job pointer to NULL before signaling the fence

In commit e4b5ccd392b9 ("drm/v3d: Ensure job pointer is set to NULL
after job completion"), we introduced a change to assign the job pointer
to NULL after completing a job, indicating job completion.

However, this approach created a race condition between the DRM
scheduler workqueue and the IRQ execution thread. As soon as the fence is
signaled in the IRQ execution thread, a new job starts to be executed.
This results in a race condition where the IRQ execution thread sets the
job pointer to NULL simultaneously as the run_job() function assigns
a new job to the pointer.

This race condition can lead to a NULL pointer dereference if the IRQ
execution thread sets the job pointer to NULL after run_job() assigns
it to the new job. When the new job completes and the GPU emits an
interrupt, v3d_irq() is triggered, potentially causing a crash.

[ 466.310099] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000c0
[ 466.318928] Mem abort info:
[ 466.321723] ESR = 0x0000000096000005
[ 466.325479] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 466.330807] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 466.333864] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 466.337010] FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault
[ 466.341900] Data abort info:
[ 466.344783] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[ 466.350285] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[ 466.355350] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[ 466.360677] user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000089772000
[ 466.367140] [00000000000000c0] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
[ 466.375875] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 466.382163] Modules linked in: rfcomm snd_seq_dummy snd_hrtimer snd_seq snd_seq_device algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg bnep binfmt_misc vc4 snd_soc_hdmi_codec drm_display_helper cec brcmfmac_wcc spidev rpivid_hevc(C) drm_client_lib brcmfmac hci_uart drm_dma_helper pisp_be btbcm brcmutil snd_soc_core aes_ce_blk v4l2_mem2mem bluetooth aes_ce_cipher snd_compress videobuf2_dma_contig ghash_ce cfg80211 gf128mul snd_pcm_dmaengine videobuf2_memops ecdh_generic sha2_ce ecc videobuf2_v4l2 snd_pcm v3d sha256_arm64 rfkill videodev snd_timer sha1_ce libaes gpu_sched snd videobuf2_common sha1_generic drm_shmem_helper mc rp1_pio drm_kms_helper raspberrypi_hwmon spi_bcm2835 gpio_keys i2c_brcmstb rp1 raspberrypi_gpiomem rp1_mailbox rp1_adc nvmem_rmem uio_pdrv_genirq uio i2c_dev drm ledtrig_pattern drm_panel_orientation_quirks backlight fuse dm_mod ip_tables x_tables ipv6
[ 466.458429] CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 2008 Comm: chromium Tainted: G C 6.13.0-v8+ #18
[ 466.467336] Tainted: [C]=CRAP
[ 466.470306] Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0 (DT)
[ 466.476157] pstate: 404000c9 (nZcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 466.483143] pc : v3d_irq+0x118/0x2e0 [v3d]
[ 466.487258] lr : __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x60/0x228
[ 466.492327] sp : ffffffc080003ea0
[ 466.495646] x29: ffffffc080003ea0 x28: ffffff80c0c94200 x27: 0000000000000000
[ 466.502807] x26: ffffffd08dd81d7b x25: ffffff80c0c94200 x24: ffffff8003bdc200
[ 466.509969] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 00000000000000a7 x21: 0000000000000000
[ 466.517130] x20: ffffff8041bb0000 x19: 0000000000000001 x18: 0000000000000000
[ 466.524291] x17: ffffffafadfb0000 x16: ffffffc080000000 x15: 0000000000000000
[ 466.531452] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
[ 466.538613] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffffd08c527eb0
[ 466.545777] x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
[ 466.552941] x5 : ffffffd08c4100d0 x4 : ffffffafadfb0000 x3 : ffffffc080003f70
[ 466.560102] x2 : ffffffc0829e8058 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 466.567263] Call trace:
[ 466.569711] v3d_irq+0x118/0x2e0 [v3d] (P)
[ 466.
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 10, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 10, 2025
Last updated Feb 21, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(3rd percentile)

Weaknesses

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2025-21688

GHSA ID

GHSA-gjcc-jpc7-jff7

Source code

No known source code

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