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CVE-2025-71180 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: counter: interrupt-cnt: Drop IRQF_NO_THREAD flag An IRQ handler can either be IRQF_NO_THREAD or acquire spinlock_t, as CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING warns: ============================= [ BUG: Invalid wait context ] 6.18.0-rc1+git... #1 ----------------------------- some-user-space-process/1251 is trying to lock: (&counter->events_list_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: counter_push_event [counter] other info that might help us debug this: context-{2:2} no locks held by some-user-space-process/.... stack backtrace: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1251 Comm: some-user-space-process 6.18.0-rc1+git... #1 PREEMPT Call trace: show_stack (C) dump_stack_lvl dump_stack __lock_acquire lock_acquire _raw_spin_lock_irqsave counter_push_event [counter] interrupt_cnt_isr [interrupt_cnt] __handle_irq_event_percpu handle_irq_event handle_simple_irq handle_irq_desc generic_handle_domain_irq gpio_irq_handler handle_irq_desc generic_handle_domain_irq gic_handle_irq call_on_irq_stack do_interrupt_handler el0_interrupt __el0_irq_handler_common el0t_64_irq_handler el0t_64_irq ... and Sebastian correctly points out. Remove IRQF_NO_THREAD as an alternative to switching to raw_spinlock_t, because the latter would limit all potential nested locks to raw_spinlock_t only.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c5a3175aecf82cd86dfcbef2a23e8b26d8d8e7c kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23f9485510c338476b9735d516c1d4aacb810d46 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/425886b1f8304621b3f16632b274357067d5f13f kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49a66829dd3653695e60d7cae13521d131362fcd kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51d2e5d6491447258cb39ff1deb93df15d3c23cb kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef668c9a2261ec9287faba6e6ef05a98b391aa2b kernel.org

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-71180
NVD Published Date:
01/31/2026
NVD Last Modified:
02/03/2026
Source:
kernel.org