Description

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

net: ravb: Fix missing rtnl lock in suspend/resume path

Fix the suspend/resume path by ensuring the rtnl lock is held where
required. Calls to ravb_open, ravb_close and wol operations must be
performed under the rtnl lock to prevent conflicts with ongoing ndo
operations.

Without this fix, the following warning is triggered:
[ 39.032969] =============================
[ 39.032983] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[ 39.033019] -----------------------------
[ 39.033033] drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c:2004 suspicious
rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
...
[ 39.033597] stack backtrace:
[ 39.033613] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 174 Comm: python3 Not tainted
6.13.0-rc7-next-20250116-arm64-renesas-00002-g35245dfdc62c #7
[ 39.033623] Hardware name: Renesas SMARC EVK version 2 based on
r9a08g045s33 (DT)
[ 39.033628] Call trace:
[ 39.033633] show_stack+0x14/0x1c (C)
[ 39.033652] dump_stack_lvl+0xb4/0xc4
[ 39.033664] dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
[ 39.033671] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x16c/0x22c
[ 39.033682] phy_detach+0x160/0x190
[ 39.033694] phy_disconnect+0x40/0x54
[ 39.033703] ravb_close+0x6c/0x1cc
[ 39.033714] ravb_suspend+0x48/0x120
[ 39.033721] dpm_run_callback+0x4c/0x14c
[ 39.033731] device_suspend+0x11c/0x4dc
[ 39.033740] dpm_suspend+0xdc/0x214
[ 39.033748] dpm_suspend_start+0x48/0x60
[ 39.033758] suspend_devices_and_enter+0x124/0x574
[ 39.033769] pm_suspend+0x1ac/0x274
[ 3...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-21801

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux, Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 4.0% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-28 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21801
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0296981941cf291edfbc318d3255a93439f368e4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad19522c007bb24ed874468f8baa1503c4662cf4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c2ebb2b49573e5f8726112ad06b1dffc3c9ea03

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