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CVE-2025-71140 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mediatek: vcodec: Use spinlock for context list protection lock Previously a mutex was added to protect the encoder and decoder context lists from unexpected changes originating from the SCP IP block, causing the context pointer to go invalid, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference in the IPI handler. Turns out on the MT8173, the VPU IPI handler is called from hard IRQ context. This causes a big warning from the scheduler. This was first reported downstream on the ChromeOS kernels, but is also reproducible on mainline using Fluster with the FFmpeg v4l2m2m decoders. Even though the actual capture format is not supported, the affected code paths are triggered. Since this lock just protects the context list and operations on it are very fast, it should be OK to switch to a spinlock.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c1ea6214827041f548279c9eda341eda0cc8351 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e858938b0e659f6ec9ddcf853a87f1c5c3f44e1 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5844227e0f030d2af2d85d4aed10c5eca6ca176 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b92c19675f632a41af1222027a231bc2b7efa7ed kernel.org

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-71140
NVD Published Date:
01/14/2026
NVD Last Modified:
01/14/2026
Source:
kernel.org