CVE-2025-21943

Both newdevicestore and deletedevicestore touch module global resources (e.g. gpioaggregatorlock). To prevent race conditions with module unload, a reference needs to be held.

Add trymoduleget() in these handlers.

For newdevicestore, this eliminates what appears to be the most dangerous scenario: if an id is allocated from gpioaggregatoridr but platformdeviceregister has not yet been called or completed, a concurrent module unload could fail to unregister/delete the device, leaving behind a dangling platform device/GPIO forwarder. This can result in various issues. The following simple reproducer demonstrates these problems:

#!/bin/bash while :; do # note: whether 'gpiochip0 0' exists or not does not matter. echo 'gpiochip0 0' > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/gpio-aggregator/new_device done & while :; do modprobe gpio-aggregator modprobe -r gpio-aggregator done & wait

Starting with the following warning, several kinds of warnings will appear and the system may become unstable:

------------[ cut here ]------------ listdel corruption, ffff888103e2e980->next is LISTPOISON1 (dead000000000100) WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1327 at lib/listdebug.c:56 listdelentryvalidorreport+0xa3/0x120 [...] RIP: 0010:listdelentryvalidorreport+0xa3/0x120 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> ? _listdelentryvalidorreport+0xa3/0x120 ? _warn.cold+0x93/0xf2 ? _listdelentryvalidorreport+0xa3/0x120 ? reportbug+0xe6/0x170 ? _irqworkqueuelocal+0x39/0xe0 ? handlebug+0x58/0x90 ? excinvalidop+0x13/0x60 ? asmexcinvalidop+0x16/0x20 ? _listdelentryvalidorreport+0xa3/0x120 gpiodremovelookuptable+0x22/0x60 newdevicestore+0x315/0x350 [gpioaggregator] kernfsfopwriteiter+0x137/0x1f0 vfswrite+0x262/0x430 ksyswrite+0x60/0xd0 dosyscall64+0x6c/0x180 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x76/0x7e [...] </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / linux

Package

Name: linux
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.10.237-1

Affected versions

5.*

5.10.46-4

5.10.46-5

5.10.70-1~bpo10+1

5.10.70-1

5.10.84-1

5.10.92-1~bpo10+1

5.10.92-1

5.10.92-2

5.10.103-1~bpo10+1

5.10.103-1

5.10.106-1

5.10.113-1

5.10.120-1~bpo10+1

5.10.120-1

5.10.127-1

5.10.127-2~bpo10+1

5.10.127-2

5.10.136-1

5.10.140-1

5.10.148-1

5.10.149-1

5.10.149-2

5.10.158-1

5.10.158-2

5.10.162-1

5.10.178-1

5.10.178-2

5.10.178-3

5.10.179-1

5.10.179-2

5.10.179-3

5.10.179-4

5.10.179-5

5.10.191-1

5.10.197-1

5.10.205-1

5.10.205-2

5.10.209-1

5.10.209-2

5.10.216-1

5.10.218-1

5.10.221-1

5.10.223-1

5.10.226-1

5.10.234-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name: linux
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

6.1.133-1

Affected versions

6.*

6.1.27-1

6.1.37-1

6.1.38-1

6.1.38-2~bpo11+1

6.1.38-2

6.1.38-3

6.1.38-4~bpo11+1

6.1.38-4

6.1.52-1

6.1.55-1~bpo11+1

6.1.55-1

6.1.64-1

6.1.66-1

6.1.67-1

6.1.69-1~bpo11+1

6.1.69-1

6.1.76-1~bpo11+1

6.1.76-1

6.1.82-1

6.1.85-1

6.1.90-1~bpo11+1

6.1.90-1

6.1.94-1~bpo11+1

6.1.94-1

6.1.98-1

6.1.99-1

6.1.106-1

6.1.106-2

6.1.106-3

6.1.112-1

6.1.115-1

6.1.119-1

6.1.123-1

6.1.124-1

6.1.128-1

6.1.129-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name: linux
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

6.12.19-1

Affected versions

6.*

6.1.27-1

6.1.37-1

6.1.38-1

6.1.38-2~bpo11+1

6.1.38-2

6.1.38-3

6.1.38-4~bpo11+1

6.1.38-4

6.1.52-1

6.1.55-1~bpo11+1

6.1.55-1

6.1.64-1

6.1.66-1

6.1.67-1

6.1.69-1~bpo11+1

6.1.69-1

6.1.76-1~bpo11+1

6.1.76-1

6.1.82-1

6.1.85-1

6.1.90-1~bpo11+1

6.1.90-1

6.1.94-1~bpo11+1

6.1.94-1

6.1.98-1

6.1.99-1

6.1.106-1

6.1.106-2

6.1.106-3

6.1.112-1

6.1.115-1

6.1.119-1

6.1.123-1

6.1.124-1

6.1.128-1

6.1.129-1

6.1.133-1

6.1.135-1

6.1.137-1

6.1.139-1

6.1.140-1

6.3.1-1~exp1

6.3.2-1~exp1

6.3.4-1~exp1

6.3.5-1~exp1

6.3.7-1~bpo12+1

6.3.7-1

6.3.11-1

6.4~rc6-1~exp1

6.4~rc7-1~exp1

6.4.1-1~exp1

6.4.4-1~bpo12+1

6.4.4-1

6.4.4-2

6.4.4-3~bpo12+1

6.4.4-3

6.4.11-1

6.4.13-1

6.5~rc4-1~exp1

6.5~rc6-1~exp1

6.5~rc7-1~exp1

6.5.1-1~exp1

6.5.3-1~bpo12+1

6.5.3-1

6.5.6-1

6.5.8-1

6.5.10-1~bpo12+1

6.5.10-1

6.5.13-1

6.6.3-1~exp1

6.6.4-1~exp1

6.6.7-1~exp1

6.6.8-1

6.6.9-1

6.6.11-1

6.6.13-1~bpo12+1

6.6.13-1

6.6.15-1

6.6.15-2

6.7-1~exp1

6.7.1-1~exp1

6.7.4-1~exp1

6.7.7-1

6.7.9-1

6.7.9-2

6.7.12-1~bpo12+1

6.7.12-1

6.8.9-1

6.8.11-1

6.8.12-1~bpo12+1

6.8.12-1

6.9.2-1~exp1

6.9.7-1~bpo12+1

6.9.7-1

6.9.8-1

6.9.9-1

6.9.10-1~bpo12+1

6.9.10-1

6.9.11-1

6.9.12-1

6.10-1~exp1

6.10.1-1~exp1

6.10.3-1

6.10.4-1

6.10.6-1~bpo12+1

6.10.6-1

6.10.7-1

6.10.9-1

6.10.11-1~bpo12+1

6.10.11-1

6.10.12-1

6.11~rc4-1~exp1

6.11~rc5-1~exp1

6.11-1~exp1

6.11.2-1

6.11.4-1

6.11.5-1~bpo12+1

6.11.5-1

6.11.6-1

6.11.7-1

6.11.9-1

6.11.10-1~bpo12+1

6.11.10-1

6.12~rc6-1~exp1

6.12.3-1

6.12.5-1

6.12.6-1

6.12.8-1

6.12.9-1~bpo12+1

6.12.9-1

6.12.9-1+alpha

6.12.10-1

6.12.11-1

6.12.11-1+alpha

6.12.11-1+alpha.1

6.12.12-1~bpo12+1

6.12.12-1

6.12.13-1

6.12.15-1

6.12.16-1

6.12.17-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:11 / linux-6.1

Package

Name: linux-6.1
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/linux-6.1?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

6.1.137-1~deb11u1

Affected versions

6.*

6.1.106-3~deb11u1

6.1.106-3~deb11u2

6.1.106-3~deb11u3

6.1.112-1~deb11u1

6.1.119-1~deb11u1

6.1.128-1~deb11u1

6.1.129-1~deb11u1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}