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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21878" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-03-27T14:57:08.155Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:08:16.217Z" 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-2025-21878" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21878.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21878" title: "i2c: npcm: disable interrupt enable bit before devm_request_irq" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni2c: npcm: disable interrupt enable bit before devm_request_irq\n\nThe customer reports that there is a soft lockup issue related to\nthe i2c driver. After checking, the i2c module was doing a tx transfer\nand the bmc machine reboots in the middle of the i2c transaction, the i2c\nmodule keeps the status without being reset.\n\nDue to such an i2c module status, the i2c irq handler keeps getting\ntriggered since the i2c irq handler is registered in the kernel booting\nprocess after the bmc machine is doing a warm rebooting.\nThe continuous triggering is stopped by the soft lockup watchdog timer.\n\nDisable the interrupt enable bit in the i2c module before calling\ndevm_request_irq to fix this issue since the i2c relative status bit\nis read-only.\n\nHere is the soft lockup log.\n[ 28.176395] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 26s! [swapper/0:1]\n[ 28.183351] Modules linked in:\n[ 28.186407] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.15.120-yocto-s-dirty-bbebc78 #1\n[ 28.201174] pstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n[ 28.208128] pc : __do_softirq+0xb0/0x368\n[ 28.212055] lr : __do_softirq+0x70/0x368\n[ 28.215972] sp : ffffff8035ebca00\n[ 28.219278] x29: ffffff8035ebca00 x28: 0000000000000002 x27: ffffff80071a3780\n[ 28.226412] x26: ffffffc008bdc000 x25: ffffffc008bcc640 x24: ffffffc008be50c0\n[ 28.233546] x23: ffffffc00800200c x22: 0000000000000000 x21: 000000000000001b\n[ 28.240679] x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffffff80001c3200 x18: ffffffffffffffff\n[ 28.247812] x17: ffffffc02d2e0000 x16: ffffff8035eb8b40 x15: 00001e8480000000\n[ 28.254945] x14: 02c3647e37dbfcb6 x13: 02c364f2ab14200c x12: 0000000002c364f2\n[ 28.262078] x11: 00000000fa83b2da x10: 000000000000b67e x9 : ffffffc008010250\n[ 28.269211] x8 : 000000009d983d00 x7 : 7fffffffffffffff x6 : 0000036d74732434\n[ 28.276344] x5 : 00ffffffffffffff x4 : 0000000000000015 x3 : 0000000000000198\n[ 28.283476] x2 : ffffffc02d2e0000 x1 : 00000000000000e0 x0 : ffffffc008bdcb40\n[ 28.290611] Call trace:\n[ 28.293052] __do_softirq+0xb0/0x368\n[ 28.296625] __irq_exit_rcu+0xe0/0x100\n[ 28.300374] irq_exit+0x14/0x20\n[ 28.303513] handle_domain_irq+0x68/0x90\n[ 28.307440] gic_handle_irq+0x78/0xb0\n[ 28.311098] call_on_irq_stack+0x20/0x38\n[ 28.315019] do_interrupt_handler+0x54/0x5c\n[ 28.319199] el1_interrupt+0x2c/0x4c\n[ 28.322777] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x14/0x20\n[ 28.326872] el1h_64_irq+0x74/0x78\n[ 28.330269] __setup_irq+0x454/0x780\n[ 28.333841] request_threaded_irq+0xd0/0x1b4\n[ 28.338107] devm_request_threaded_irq+0x84/0x100\n[ 28.342809] npcm_i2c_probe_bus+0x188/0x3d0\n[ 28.346990] platform_probe+0x6c/0xc4\n[ 28.350653] really_probe+0xcc/0x45c\n[ 28.354227] __driver_probe_device+0x8c/0x160\n[ 28.358578] driver_probe_device+0x44/0xe0\n[ 28.362670] __driver_attach+0x124/0x1d0\n[ 28.366589] bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xe0\n[ 28.370426] driver_attach+0x28/0x30\n[ 28.373997] bus_add_driver+0x124/0x240\n[ 28.377830] driver_register+0x7c/0x124\n[ 28.381662] __platform_driver_register+0x2c/0x34\n[ 28.386362] npcm_i2c_init+0x3c/0x5c\n[ 28.389937] do_one_initcall+0x74/0x230\n[ 28.393768] kernel_init_freeable+0x24c/0x2b4\n[ 28.398126] kernel_init+0x28/0x130\n[ 28.401614] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n[ 28.405189] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks\n[ 28.411011] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs\n[ 28.414933] Kernel Offset: disabled\n[ 28.418412] CPU features: 0x00000000,00000802\n[ 28.427644] Rebooting in 20 seconds.." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"56a1485b102ed1cd5a4af8e87ed794699fd1cad2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f32d7b4dc6e791523c70e83049645dcba2a2aa33"},{"version":"56a1485b102ed1cd5a4af8e87ed794699fd1cad2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3aea1dba97d31eceed7b622000af0406988b9c8"},{"version":"56a1485b102ed1cd5a4af8e87ed794699fd1cad2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"545b563eb00d0576775da4011b3f7ffefc9e8c60"},{"version":"56a1485b102ed1cd5a4af8e87ed794699fd1cad2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b267e1b87d52b16e7dfcc7ab2ab760f6f8f9ca9"},{"version":"56a1485b102ed1cd5a4af8e87ed794699fd1cad2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12d0e39916705b68d2d8ba20a8e35d1d27afc260"},{"version":"56a1485b102ed1cd5a4af8e87ed794699fd1cad2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"846e371631c57365eeb89e5db1ab0f344169af93"},{"version":"56a1485b102ed1cd5a4af8e87ed794699fd1cad2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd1998e243f5fa25d348a384ba0b6c84d980f2b2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.235","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.179","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","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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