{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-21943", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2024-12-29T08:45:45.789Z", "datePublished": "2025-04-01T15:41:07.463Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T21:09:32.538Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T21:09:32.538Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngpio: aggregator: protect driver attr handlers against module unload\n\nBoth new_device_store and delete_device_store touch module global\nresources (e.g. gpio_aggregator_lock). To prevent race conditions with\nmodule unload, a reference needs to be held.\n\nAdd try_module_get() in these handlers.\n\nFor new_device_store, this eliminates what appears to be the most dangerous\nscenario: if an id is allocated from gpio_aggregator_idr but\nplatform_device_register has not yet been called or completed, a concurrent\nmodule unload could fail to unregister/delete the device, leaving behind a\ndangling platform device/GPIO forwarder. This can result in various issues.\nThe following simple reproducer demonstrates these problems:\n\n #!/bin/bash\n while :; do\n # note: whether 'gpiochip0 0' exists or not does not matter.\n echo 'gpiochip0 0' > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/gpio-aggregator/new_device\n done &\n while :; do\n modprobe gpio-aggregator\n modprobe -r gpio-aggregator\n done &\n wait\n\n Starting with the following warning, several kinds of warnings will appear\n and the system may become unstable:\n\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n list_del corruption, ffff888103e2e980->next is LIST_POISON1 (dead000000000100)\n WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1327 at lib/list_debug.c:56 __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120\n [...]\n RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \n ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120\n ? __warn.cold+0x93/0xf2\n ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120\n ? report_bug+0xe6/0x170\n ? __irq_work_queue_local+0x39/0xe0\n ? handle_bug+0x58/0x90\n ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60\n ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20\n ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120\n gpiod_remove_lookup_table+0x22/0x60\n new_device_store+0x315/0x350 [gpio_aggregator]\n kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x137/0x1f0\n vfs_write+0x262/0x430\n ksys_write+0x60/0xd0\n do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x180\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n [...]\n \n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---" } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382", "lessThan": "fd6aa1f8cbe0979eb66ac32ebc231bf0b10a2117", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382", "lessThan": "807789018186cf508ceb3a1f8f02935cd195717b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382", "lessThan": "9334c88fc2fbc6836b307d269fcc1744c69701c0", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382", "lessThan": "d99dc8f7ea01ee1b21306e0eda8eb18a4af80db6", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382", "lessThan": "8fb07fb1bba91d45846ed8605c3097fe67a7d54c", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382", "lessThan": "56281a76b805b5ac61feb5d580139695a22f87f0", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382", "lessThan": "12f65d1203507f7db3ba59930fe29a3b8eee9945", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c" ], "versions": [ 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