CVE-2025-21871

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21871
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21871.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21871
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-03-27T13:38:23.461Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:41:13.091332Z
Summary
tee: optee: Fix supplicant wait loop
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21871.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2
Fixed
3eb4911364c764572e9db4ab900a57689a54e8ce
Fixed
0180cf0373f84fff61b16f8c062553a13dd7cfca
Fixed
c0a9a948159153be145f9471435695373904ee6d
Fixed
ec18520f5edc20a00c34a8c9fdd6507c355e880f
Fixed
d61cc1a435e6894bfb0dd3370c6f765d2d12825d
Fixed
fd9d2d6124c293e40797a080adf8a9c237efd8b8
Fixed
21234efe2a8474a6d2d01ea9573319de7858ce44
Fixed
70b0d6b0a199c5a3ee6c72f5e61681ed6f759612

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21871.json"