# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21911"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-04-01T15:40:49.698Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:08:54.809Z"
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-2025-21911"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21911.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21911"
title: "drm/imagination: avoid deadlock on fence release"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/imagination: avoid deadlock on fence release\n\nDo scheduler queue fence release processing on a workqueue, rather\nthan in the release function itself.\n\nFixes deadlock issues such as the following:\n\n[  607.400437] ============================================\n[  607.405755] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected\n[  607.415500] --------------------------------------------\n[  607.420817] weston:zfq0/24149 is trying to acquire lock:\n[  607.426131] ffff000017d041a0 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pvr_gem_object_vunmap+0x40/0xc0 [powervr]\n[  607.436728]\n               but task is already holding lock:\n[  607.442554] ffff000017d105a0 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: dma_buf_ioctl+0x250/0x554\n[  607.451727]\n               other info that might help us debug this:\n[  607.458245]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:\n\n[  607.464155]        CPU0\n[  607.466601]        ----\n[  607.469044]   lock(reservation_ww_class_mutex);\n[  607.473584]   lock(reservation_ww_class_mutex);\n[  607.478114]\n                *** DEADLOCK ***"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"eaf01ee5ba28b97f96a3d3eec4c5fbfb37ee4cde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d993ae7360923efd6ade43a32043459a121c28c1"},{"version":"eaf01ee5ba28b97f96a3d3eec4c5fbfb37ee4cde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9bd8b8d34cf4efba18766d64f817c819ed1bbde7"},{"version":"eaf01ee5ba28b97f96a3d3eec4c5fbfb37ee4cde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df1a1ed5e1bdd9cc13148e0e5549f5ebcf76cf13"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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