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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21684" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-09T11:37:24.610Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:04:26.852Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21684" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21684.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21684" title: "gpio: xilinx: Convert gpio_lock to raw spinlock" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngpio: xilinx: Convert gpio_lock to raw spinlock\n\nirq_chip functions may be called in raw spinlock context. Therefore, we\nmust also use a raw spinlock for our own internal locking.\n\nThis fixes the following lockdep splat:\n\n[ 5.349336] =============================\n[ 5.353349] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]\n[ 5.357361] 6.13.0-rc5+ #69 Tainted: G W\n[ 5.363031] -----------------------------\n[ 5.367045] kworker/u17:1/44 is trying to lock:\n[ 5.371587] ffffff88018b02c0 (&chip-\u003egpio_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: xgpio_irq_unmask (drivers/gpio/gpio-xilinx.c:433 (discriminator 8))\n[ 5.380079] other info that might help us debug this:\n[ 5.385138] context-{5:5}\n[ 5.387762] 5 locks held by kworker/u17:1/44:\n[ 5.392123] #0: ffffff8800014958 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3204)\n[ 5.402260] #1: ffffffc082fcbdd8 (deferred_probe_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3205)\n[ 5.411528] #2: ffffff880172c900 (&dev-\u003emutex){....}-{4:4}, at: __device_attach (drivers/base/dd.c:1006)\n[ 5.419929] #3: ffffff88039c8268 (request_class#2){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: __setup_irq (kernel/irq/internals.h:156 kernel/irq/manage.c:1596)\n[ 5.428331] #4: ffffff88039c80c8 (lock_class#2){....}-{2:2}, at: __setup_irq (kernel/irq/manage.c:1614)\n[ 5.436472] stack backtrace:\n[ 5.439359] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 44 Comm: kworker/u17:1 Tainted: G W 6.13.0-rc5+ #69\n[ 5.448690] Tainted: [W]=WARN\n[ 5.451656] Hardware name: xlnx,zynqmp (DT)\n[ 5.455845] Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func\n[ 5.461699] Call trace:\n[ 5.464147] show_stack+0x18/0x24 C\n[ 5.467821] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:123)\n[ 5.471501] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:130)\n[ 5.474824] __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4828 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4898 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5176)\n[ 5.478758] lock_acquire (arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h:40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:467 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5851 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5814)\n[ 5.482429] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave (include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:111 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162)\n[ 5.486797] xgpio_irq_unmask (drivers/gpio/gpio-xilinx.c:433 (discriminator 8))\n[ 5.490737] irq_enable (kernel/irq/internals.h:236 kernel/irq/chip.c:170 kernel/irq/chip.c:439 kernel/irq/chip.c:432 kernel/irq/chip.c:345)\n[ 5.494060] __irq_startup (kernel/irq/internals.h:241 kernel/irq/chip.c:180 kernel/irq/chip.c:250)\n[ 5.497645] irq_startup (kernel/irq/chip.c:270)\n[ 5.501143] __setup_irq (kernel/irq/manage.c:1807)\n[ 5.504728] request_threaded_irq (kernel/irq/manage.c:2208)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a32c7caea292c4d1e417eae6e5a348d187546acf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d25041d4a3b2af64c888cf762362b2528ba59294"},{"version":"a32c7caea292c4d1e417eae6e5a348d187546acf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0ed2d0abc021f56fa27dc6d0770535c1851a43b"},{"version":"a32c7caea292c4d1e417eae6e5a348d187546acf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b0111650ee596219bb5defa0ce1a1308e6e77ccf"},{"version":"a32c7caea292c4d1e417eae6e5a348d187546acf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c035105c5537d2ecad6b9415e9417a1ffbd0a62"},{"version":"a32c7caea292c4d1e417eae6e5a348d187546acf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9860370c2172704b6b4f0075a0c2a29fd84af96a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.15.179","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.129","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.74","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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