🛡️ CVE-2025-68203 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
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Description

drm/amdgpu: fix lock warning in amdgpu_userq_fence_driver_process

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

drm/amdgpu: fix lock warning in amdgpu_userq_fence_driver_process

Fix a potential deadlock caused by inconsistent spinlock usage

between interrupt and process contexts in the userq fence driver.

The issue occurs when amdgpu_userq_fence_driver_process() is called

from both:

  • Interrupt context: gfx_v11_0_eop_irq() -> amdgpu_userq_fence_driver_process()
  • Process context: amdgpu_eviction_fence_suspend_worker() ->

amdgpu_userq_fence_driver_force_completion() -> amdgpu_userq_fence_driver_process()

In interrupt context, the spinlock was acquired without disabling

interrupts, leaving it in {IN-HARDIRQ-W} state. When the same lock

is acquired in process context, the kernel detects inconsistent

locking since the process context acquisition would enable interrupts

while holding a lock previously acquired in interrupt context.

Kernel log shows:

[ 4039.310790] inconsistent {IN-HARDIRQ-W} -> {HARDIRQ-ON-W} usage.

[ 4039.310804] kworker/7:2/409 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:

[ 4039.310818] ffff9284e1bed000 (&fence_drv->fence_list_lock){?...}-{3:3},

[ 4039.310993] {IN-HARDIRQ-W} state was registered at:

[ 4039.311004] lock_acquire+0xc6/0x300

[ 4039.311018] _raw_spin_lock+0x39/0x80

[ 4039.311031] amdgpu_userq_fence_driver_process.part.0+0x30/0x180 [amdgpu]

[ 4039.311146] amdgpu_userq_fence_driver_process+0x17/0x30 [amdgpu]

[ 4039.311257] gfx_v11_0_eop_irq+0x132/0x170 [amdgpu]

Fix by using spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_unlock_irqrestore() to properly

manage interrupt state regardless of calling context.

(cherry picked from commit ded3ad780cf97a04927773c4600823b84f7f3cc2)

Affected software

CVE-2025-68203 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (fixed in 6.17.9)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 16 December 2025 and last revised on 10 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Package)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)

CVE-2025-68203 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-16
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-04-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.17.9
unknown

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