CVE-2025-68244 drm/i915: Avoid lock inversion when pinning to GGTT on CHV/BXT+VTD
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/i915: Avoid lock inversion when pinning to GGTT on CHV/BXT+VTD

On completion of i915_vma_pin_ww(), a synchronous variant of
dma_fence_work_commit() is called.  When pinning a VMA to GGTT address
space on a Cherry View family processor, or on a Broxton generation SoC
with VTD enabled, i.e., when stop_machine() is then called from
intel_ggtt_bind_vma(), that can potentially lead to lock inversion among
reservation_ww and cpu_hotplug locks.

[86.861179] ======================================================
[86.861193] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[86.861209] 6.15.0-rc5-CI_DRM_16515-gca0305cadc2d+ #1 Tainted: G     U
[86.861226] ------------------------------------------------------
[86.861238] i915_module_loa/1432 is trying to acquire lock:
[86.861252] ffffffff83489090 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: stop_machine+0x1c/0x50
[86.861290]
but task is already holding lock:
[86.861303] ffffc90002e0b4c8 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: i915_vma_pin.constprop.0+0x39/0x1d0 [i915]
[86.862233]
which lock already depends on the new lock.
[86.862251]
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[86.862265]
-> #5 (reservation_ww_class_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:
[86.862292]        dma_resv_lockdep+0x19a/0x390
[86.862315]        do_one_initcall+0x60/0x3f0
[86.862334]        kernel_init_freeable+0x3cd/0x680
[86.862353]        kernel_init+0x1b/0x200
[86.862369]        ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70
[86.862383]        ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[86.862399]
-> #4 (reservation_ww_class_acquire){+.+.}-{0:0}:
[86.862425]        dma_resv_lockdep+0x178/0x390
[86.862440]        do_one_initcall+0x60/0x3f0
[86.862454]        kernel_init_freeable+0x3cd/0x680
[86.862470]        kernel_init+0x1b/0x200
[86.862482]        ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70
[86.862495]        ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[86.862509]
-> #3 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{3:3}:
[86.862531]        down_read_killable+0x46/0x1e0
[86.862546]        lock_mm_and_find_vma+0xa2/0x280
[86.862561]        do_user_addr_fault+0x266/0x8e0
[86.862578]        exc_page_fault+0x8a/0x2f0
[86.862593]        asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
[86.862607]        filldir64+0xeb/0x180
[86.862620]        kernfs_fop_readdir+0x118/0x480
[86.862635]        iterate_dir+0xcf/0x2b0
[86.862648]        __x64_sys_getdents64+0x84/0x140
[86.862661]        x64_sys_call+0x1058/0x2660
[86.862675]        do_syscall_64+0x91/0xe90
[86.862689]        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[86.862703]
-> #2 (&root->kernfs_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}:
[86.862725]        down_write+0x3e/0xf0
[86.862738]        kernfs_add_one+0x30/0x3c0
[86.862751]        kernfs_create_dir_ns+0x53/0xb0
[86.862765]        internal_create_group+0x134/0x4c0
[86.862779]        sysfs_create_group+0x13/0x20
[86.862792]        topology_add_dev+0x1d/0x30
[86.862806]        cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x4b5/0x850
[86.862822]        cpuhp_issue_call+0xbf/0x1f0
[86.862836]        __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x111/0x320
[86.862852]        __cpuhp_setup_state+0xb0/0x220
[86.862866]        topology_sysfs_init+0x30/0x50
[86.862879]        do_one_initcall+0x60/0x3f0
[86.862893]        kernel_init_freeable+0x3cd/0x680
[86.862908]        kernel_init+0x1b/0x200
[86.862921]        ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70
[86.862934]        ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[86.862947]
-> #1 (cpuhp_state_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:
[86.862969]        __mutex_lock+0xaa/0xed0
[86.862982]        mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x30
[86.862995]        __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x67/0x320
[86.863012]        __cpuhp_setup_state+0xb0/0x220
[86.863026]        page_alloc_init_cpuhp+0x2d/0x60
[86.863041]        mm_core_init+0x22/0x2d0
[86.863054]        start_kernel+0x576/0xbd0
[86.863068]        x86_64_start_reservations+0x18/0x30
[86.863084]        x86_64_start_kernel+0xbf/0x110
[86.863098]        common_startup_64+0x13e/0x141
[86.863114]
-> #0 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}:
[86.863135]        __lock_acquire+0x16
---truncated---
Affected products: vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: unaffected
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
default_status: affected
Published: 2025-12-16T14:21:21.277Z