drm/imagination: Fix kernel crash when hard resetting the GPU (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-38521
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 5 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/imagination: Fix kernel crash when hard resetting the GPU The GPU hard reset sequence calls pm_runtime_force_suspend() and pm_runtime_force_resume(), which according to their documentation should only be used during system-wide PM transitions to sleep states. The main issue though is that depending on some internal runtime PM state as seen by pm_runtime_force_suspend() (whether the usage count is <= 1), pm_runtime_force_resume() might not resume the device unless needed. If that happens, the runtime PM resume callback pvr_power_device_resume() is not called, the GPU clocks are not re-enabled, and the kernel crashes on the next attempt to access GPU registers as part of the power-on sequence. Replace calls to pm_runtime_force_suspend() and pm_runtime_force_resume() with direct calls to the driver's runtime PM callbacks, pvr_power_device_suspend() and pvr_power_device_resume(), to ensure clocks are re-enabled and avoid the kernel crash.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-668 — Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected cc1aeedb98ad347c06ff59e991b2f94dfb4c565d < 9f852d301f642223c4798f3c13ba15e91165d078 ; affected cc1aeedb98ad347c06ff59e991b2f94dfb4c565d < e066cc6e0f094ca2120f1928d126d56f686cd73e ; affected cc1aeedb98ad347c06ff59e991b2f94dfb4c565d < d38376b3ee48d073c64e75e150510d7e6b4b04f7
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.8 ; unaffected 0 < 6.8 ; unaffected 6.12.39 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.15.7 ≤ 6.15.* ; unaffected 6.16 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD