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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2025-21876",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21876",
    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-03-27T14:57:06.802Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T21:51:54.560Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "iommu/vt-d: Fix suspicious RCU usage",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/vt-d: Fix suspicious RCU usage\n\nCommit <d74169ceb0d2> (\"iommu/vt-d: Allocate DMAR fault interrupts\nlocally\") moved the call to enable_drhd_fault_handling() to a code\npath that does not hold any lock while traversing the drhd list. Fix\nit by ensuring the dmar_global_lock lock is held when traversing the\ndrhd list.\n\nWithout this fix, the following warning is triggered:\n =============================\n WARNING: suspicious RCU usage\n 6.14.0-rc3 #55 Not tainted\n -----------------------------\n drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c:2046 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!\n               other info that might help us debug this:\n               rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1\n 2 locks held by cpuhp/1/23:\n #0: ffffffff84a67c50 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x87/0x2c0\n #1: ffffffff84a6a380 (cpuhp_state-up){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x87/0x2c0\n stack backtrace:\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 23 Comm: cpuhp/1 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3 #55\n Call Trace:\n  <TASK>\n  dump_stack_lvl+0xb7/0xd0\n  lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x159/0x1f0\n  ? __pfx_enable_drhd_fault_handling+0x10/0x10\n  enable_drhd_fault_handling+0x151/0x180\n  cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x1df/0x990\n  cpuhp_thread_fun+0x1ea/0x2c0\n  smpboot_thread_fn+0x1f5/0x2e0\n  ? __pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10\n  kthread+0x12a/0x2d0\n  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n  ret_from_fork+0x4a/0x60\n  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n  </TASK>\n\nHolding the lock in enable_drhd_fault_handling() triggers a lockdep splat\nabout a possible deadlock between dmar_global_lock and cpu_hotplug_lock.\nThis is avoided by not holding dmar_global_lock when calling\niommu_device_register(), which initiates the device probe process.",
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            {
              "version": "0",
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              "version": "6.12.18",
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              "version": "6.13.6",
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              "version": "6.14",
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              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
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