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CVE-2025-21824: gpu: host1x: Fix a use of uninitialized mutex

Description

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

gpu: host1x: Fix a use of uninitialized mutex

commit c8347f915e67 ("gpu: host1x: Fix boot regression for Tegra")
caused a use of uninitialized mutex leading to below warning when
CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES and CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC are enabled.

[ 41.662843] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 41.663012] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->magic != lock)
[ 41.663035] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 794 at kernel/locking/mutex.c:587 __mutex_lock+0x670/0x878
[ 41.663458] Modules linked in: rtw88_8822c(+) bluetooth(+) rtw88_pci rtw88_core mac80211 aquantia libarc4 crc_itu_t cfg80211 tegra194_cpufreq dwmac_tegra(+) arm_dsu_pmu stmmac_platform stmmac pcs_xpcs rfkill at24 host1x(+) tegra_bpmp_thermal ramoops reed_solomon fuse loop nfnetlink xfs mmc_block rpmb_core ucsi_ccg ina3221 crct10dif_ce xhci_tegra ghash_ce lm90 sha2_ce sha256_arm64 sha1_ce sdhci_tegra pwm_fan sdhci_pltfm sdhci gpio_keys rtc_tegra cqhci mmc_core phy_tegra_xusb i2c_tegra tegra186_gpc_dma i2c_tegra_bpmp spi_tegra114 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[ 41.665078] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 794 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.11.0-29.31_1538613708.el10.aarch64+debug #1
[ 41.665838] Hardware name: NVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit/Jetson, BIOS 36.3.0-gcid-35594366 02/26/2024
[ 41.672555] pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 41.679636] pc : __mutex_lock+0x670/0x878
[ 41.683834] lr : __mutex_lock+0x670/0x878
[ ...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-21824

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux, Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 1.73% (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-2025-21824
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/396d8e5136b4476672bc15b83ba312486bb4bf76
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/127e91638ddcd02b80de92fec2240609a9f90426
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02458fbfaa0170aabf8506f7d4ed054f02414251

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