CVE-2025-71180

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71180
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-71180.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-71180
Downstream
Published
2026-01-31T11:38:52Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:30:11Z
Summary
counter: interrupt-cnt: Drop IRQF_NO_THREAD flag
Details

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

counter: interrupt-cnt: Drop IRQF_NO_THREAD flag

An IRQ handler can either be IRQF_NO_THREAD or acquire spinlock_t, as CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING warns:

[ BUG: Invalid wait context ] 6.18.0-rc1+git... #1

some-user-space-process/1251 is trying to lock: (&counter->events_list_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: counter_push_event [counter] other info that might help us debug this: context-{2:2} no locks held by some-user-space-process/.... stack backtrace: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1251 Comm: some-user-space-process 6.18.0-rc1+git... #1 PREEMPT Call trace: show_stack (C) dump_stack_lvl dump_stack __lock_acquire lock_acquire _raw_spin_lock_irqsave counter_push_event [counter] interrupt_cnt_isr [interrupt_cnt] __handle_irq_event_percpu handle_irq_event handle_simple_irq handle_irq_desc generic_handle_domain_irq gpio_irq_handler handle_irq_desc generic_handle_domain_irq gic_handle_irq call_on_irq_stack do_interrupt_handler el0_interrupt __el0_irq_handler_common el0t_64_irq_handler el0t_64_irq

... and Sebastian correctly points out. Remove IRQF_NO_THREAD as an alternative to switching to raw_spinlock_t, because the latter would limit all potential nested locks to raw_spinlock_t only.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/71xxx/CVE-2025-71180.json"
}
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
a55ebd47f21f6f0472766fb52c973849e31d1466
Fixed
ef668c9a2261ec9287faba6e6ef05a98b391aa2b
Fixed
51d2e5d6491447258cb39ff1deb93df15d3c23cb
Fixed
1c5a3175aecf82cd86dfcbef2a23e8b26d8d8e7c
Fixed
49a66829dd3653695e60d7cae13521d131362fcd
Fixed
425886b1f8304621b3f16632b274357067d5f13f
Fixed
23f9485510c338476b9735d516c1d4aacb810d46

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-71180.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.13.0
Fixed
5.15.198
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.161
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.121
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.66
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-71180.json"