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🛡️ CVE-2025-68244 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
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Description

drm/i915: Avoid lock inversion when pinning to GGTT on CHV/BXT+VTD

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

drm/i915: Avoid lock inversion when pinning to GGTT on CHV/BXT+VTD

On completion of i915_vma_pin_ww(), a synchronous variant of

dma_fence_work_commit() is called. When pinning a VMA to GGTT address

space on a Cherry View family processor, or on a Broxton generation SoC

with VTD enabled, i.e., when stop_machine() is then called from

intel_ggtt_bind_vma(), that can potentially lead to lock inversion among

reservation_ww and cpu_hotplug locks.

[86.861179] ======================================================

[86.861193] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected

[86.861209] 6.15.0-rc5-CI_DRM_16515-gca0305cadc2d+ #1 Tainted: G U

[86.861226] ------------------------------------------------------

[86.861238] i915_module_loa/1432 is trying to acquire lock:

[86.861252] ffffffff83489090 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: stop_machine+0x1c/0x50

[86.861290]

but task is already holding lock:

[86.861303] ffffc90002e0b4c8 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: i915_vma_pin.constprop.0+0x39/0x1d0 [i915]

[86.862233]

which lock already depends on the new lock.

[86.862251]

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

[86.862265]

-> #5 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:

[86.862292] dma_resv_lockdep+0x19a/0x390

[86.862315] do_one_initcall+0x60/0x3f0

[86.862334] kernel_init_freeable+0x3cd/0x680

[86.862353] kernel_init+0x1b/0x200

[86.862369] ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70

[86.862383] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

[86.862399]

-> #4 (reservation_ww_class_acquire){+.+.}-{0:0}:

[86.862425] dma_resv_lockdep+0x178/0x390

[86.862440] do_one_initcall+0x60/0x3f0

[86.862454] kernel_init_freeable+0x3cd/0x680

[86.862470] kernel_init+0x1b/0x200

[86.862482] ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70

[86.862495] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

[86.862509]

-> #3 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}:

[86.862531] down_read_killable+0x46/0x1e0

[86.862546] lock_mm_and_find_vma+0xa2/0x280

[86.862561] do_user_addr_fault+0x266/0x8e0

[86.862578] exc_page_fault+0x8a/0x2f0

[86.862593] asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30

[86.862607] filldir64+0xeb/0x180

[86.862620] kernfs_fop_readdir+0x118/0x480

[86.862635] iterate_dir+0xcf/0x2b0

[86.862648] __x64_sys_getdents64+0x84/0x140

[86.862661] x64_sys_call+0x1058/0x2660

[86.862675] do_syscall_64+0x91/0xe90

[86.862689] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

[86.862703]

-> #2 (&root->kernfs_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}:

[86.862725] down_write+0x3e/0xf0

[86.862738] kernfs_add_one+0x30/0x3c0

[86.862751] kernfs_create_dir_ns+0x53/0xb0

[86.862765] internal_create_group+0x134/0x4c0

[86.862779] sysfs_create_group+0x13/0x20

[86.862792] topology_add_dev+0x1d/0x30

[86.862806] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x4b5/0x850

[86.862822] cpuhp_issue_call+0xbf/0x1f0

[86.862836] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x111/0x320

[86.862852] __cpuhp_setup_state+0xb0/0x220

[86.862866] topology_sysfs_init+0x30/0x50

[86.862879] do_one_initcall+0x60/0x3f0

[86.862893] kernel_init_freeable+0x3cd/0x680

[86.862908] kernel_init+0x1b/0x200

[86.862921] ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70

[86.862934] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

[86.862947]

-> #1 (cpuhp_state_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:

[86.862969] __mutex_lock+0xaa/0xed0

[86.862982] mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x30

[86.862995] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x67/0x320

[86.863012] __cpuhp_setup_state+0xb0/0x220

[86.863026] page_alloc_init_cpuhp+0x2d/0x60

[86.863041] mm_core_init+0x22/0x2d0

[86.863054] start_kernel+0x576/0xbd0

[86.863068] x86_64_start_reservations+0x18/0x30

[86.863084] x86_64_start_kernel+0xbf/0x110

[86.863098] common_startup_64+0x13e/0x141

[86.863114]

-> #0 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}:

[86.863135] __lock_acquire+0x16

---truncated---

Affected software

CVE-2025-68244 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.13.0 up to 6.17.9)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 16 December 2025 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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

CVE-2025-68244 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 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.13.0 6.17.9
unknown

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