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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-21878

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 3/27/2025 11:15:55 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

i2c: npcm: disable interrupt enable bit before devm_request_irq

The customer reports that there is a soft lockup issue related to
the i2c driver. After checking, the i2c module was doing a tx transfer
and the bmc machine reboots in the middle of the i2c transaction, the i2c
module keeps the status without being reset.

Due to such an i2c module status, the i2c irq handler keeps getting
triggered since the i2c irq handler is registered in the kernel booting
process after the bmc machine is doing a warm rebooting.
The continuous triggering is stopped by the soft lockup watchdog timer.

Disable the interrupt enable bit in the i2c module before calling
devm_request_irq to fix this issue since the i2c relative status bit
is read-only.

Here is the soft lockup log.
[   28.176395] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 26s! [swapper/0:1]
[   28.183351] Modules linked in:
[   28.186407] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.15.120-yocto-s-dirty-bbebc78 #1
[   28.201174] pstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[   28.208128] pc : __do_softirq+0xb0/0x368
[   28.212055] lr : __do_softirq+0x70/0x368
[   28.215972] sp : ffffff8035ebca00
[   28.219278] x29: ffffff8035ebca00 x28: 0000000000000002 x27: ffffff80071a3780
[   28.226412] x26: ffffffc008bdc000 x25: ffffffc008bcc640 x24: ffffffc008be50c0
[   28.233546] x23: ffffffc00800200c x22: 0000000000000000 x21: 000000000000001b
[   28.240679] x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffffff80001c3200 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[   28.247812] x17: ffffffc02d2e0000 x16: ffffff8035eb8b40 x15: 00001e8480000000
[   28.254945] x14: 02c3647e37dbfcb6 x13: 02c364f2ab14200c x12: 0000000002c364f2
[   28.262078] x11: 00000000fa83b2da x10: 000000000000b67e x9 : ffffffc008010250
[   28.269211] x8 : 000000009d983d00 x7 : 7fffffffffffffff x6 : 0000036d74732434
[   28.276344] x5 : 00ffffffffffffff x4 : 0000000000000015 x3 : 0000000000000198
[   28.283476] x2 : ffffffc02d2e0000 x1 : 00000000000000e0 x0 : ffffffc008bdcb40
[   28.290611] Call trace:
[   28.293052]  __do_softirq+0xb0/0x368
[   28.296625]  __irq_exit_rcu+0xe0/0x100
[   28.300374]  irq_exit+0x14/0x20
[   28.303513]  handle_domain_irq+0x68/0x90
[   28.307440]  gic_handle_irq+0x78/0xb0
[   28.311098]  call_on_irq_stack+0x20/0x38
[   28.315019]  do_interrupt_handler+0x54/0x5c
[   28.319199]  el1_interrupt+0x2c/0x4c
[   28.322777]  el1h_64_irq_handler+0x14/0x20
[   28.326872]  el1h_64_irq+0x74/0x78
[   28.330269]  __setup_irq+0x454/0x780
[   28.333841]  request_threaded_irq+0xd0/0x1b4
[   28.338107]  devm_request_threaded_irq+0x84/0x100
[   28.342809]  npcm_i2c_probe_bus+0x188/0x3d0
[   28.346990]  platform_probe+0x6c/0xc4
[   28.350653]  really_probe+0xcc/0x45c
[   28.354227]  __driver_probe_device+0x8c/0x160
[   28.358578]  driver_probe_device+0x44/0xe0
[   28.362670]  __driver_attach+0x124/0x1d0
[   28.366589]  bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xe0
[   28.370426]  driver_attach+0x28/0x30
[   28.373997]  bus_add_driver+0x124/0x240
[   28.377830]  driver_register+0x7c/0x124
[   28.381662]  __platform_driver_register+0x2c/0x34
[   28.386362]  npcm_i2c_init+0x3c/0x5c
[   28.389937]  do_one_initcall+0x74/0x230
[   28.393768]  kernel_init_freeable+0x24c/0x2b4
[   28.398126]  kernel_init+0x28/0x130
[   28.401614]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[   28.405189] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
[   28.411011] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
[   28.414933] Kernel Offset: disabled
[   28.418412] CPU features: 0x00000000,00000802
[   28.427644] Rebooting in 20 seconds..
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12d0e39916705b68d2d8ba20a8e35d1d27afc260
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b267e1b87d52b16e7dfcc7ab2ab760f6f8f9ca9
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/545b563eb00d0576775da4011b3f7ffefc9e8c60
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/846e371631c57365eeb89e5db1ab0f344169af93
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd1998e243f5fa25d348a384ba0b6c84d980f2b2
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3aea1dba97d31eceed7b622000af0406988b9c8
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f32d7b4dc6e791523c70e83049645dcba2a2aa33