# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40329"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T04:09:46.156Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:47:15.504Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-40329"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40329.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40329"
title: "drm/sched: Fix deadlock in drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/sched: Fix deadlock in drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb\n\nThe Mesa issue referenced below pointed out a possible deadlock:\n\n[ 1231.611031]  Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario:\n\n[ 1231.611033]        CPU0                    CPU1\n[ 1231.611034]        ----                    ----\n[ 1231.611035]   lock(&xa-\u003exa_lock#17);\n[ 1231.611038]                                local_irq_disable();\n[ 1231.611039]                                lock(&fence-\u003elock);\n[ 1231.611041]                                lock(&xa-\u003exa_lock#17);\n[ 1231.611044]   \u003cInterrupt\u003e\n[ 1231.611045]     lock(&fence-\u003elock);\n[ 1231.611047]\n                *** DEADLOCK ***\n\nIn this example, CPU0 would be any function accessing job-\u003edependencies\nthrough the xa_* functions that don't disable interrupts (eg:\ndrm_sched_job_add_dependency(), drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb()).\n\nCPU1 is executing drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb() as a fence signalling\ncallback so in an interrupt context. It will deadlock when trying to\ngrab the xa_lock which is already held by CPU0.\n\nReplacing all xa_* usage by their xa_*_irq counterparts would fix\nthis issue, but Christian pointed out another issue: dma_fence_signal\ntakes fence.lock and so does dma_fence_add_callback.\n\n  dma_fence_signal() // locks f1.lock\n  -\u003e drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb()\n  -\u003e foreach dependencies\n     -\u003e dma_fence_add_callback() // locks f2.lock\n\nThis will deadlock if f1 and f2 share the same spinlock.\n\nTo fix both issues, the code iterating on dependencies and re-arming them\nis moved out to drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_work().\n\n[phasta: commit message nits]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2fdb8a8f07c2f1353770a324fd19b8114e4329ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"70150b9443dddf02157d821c68abf438f55a2e8e"},{"version":"2fdb8a8f07c2f1353770a324fd19b8114e4329ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d63031ee4a57be0252cb9a4e09ae921c75cece9"},{"version":"2fdb8a8f07c2f1353770a324fd19b8114e4329ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e8ada4fd838e3fd2cca94000dac054f3a347c01"},{"version":"2fdb8a8f07c2f1353770a324fd19b8114e4329ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"487df8b698345dd5a91346335f05170ed5f29d4e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.117","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.58","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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