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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-21871

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 3/27/2025 10:15:48 AM

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Added Description

								
							
							
						
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.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0180cf0373f84fff61b16f8c062553a13dd7cfca
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21234efe2a8474a6d2d01ea9573319de7858ce44
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3eb4911364c764572e9db4ab900a57689a54e8ce
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70b0d6b0a199c5a3ee6c72f5e61681ed6f759612
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0a9a948159153be145f9471435695373904ee6d
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d61cc1a435e6894bfb0dd3370c6f765d2d12825d
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec18520f5edc20a00c34a8c9fdd6507c355e880f
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd9d2d6124c293e40797a080adf8a9c237efd8b8