CVE-2025-21767 — clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context

Affected: Linux, Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP, Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP, Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context

The following bug report happened with a PREEMPT_RT kernel:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2012, name: kwatchdog preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 get_random_u32+0x4f/0x110 clocksource_verify_choose_cpus+0xab/0x1a0 clocksource_verify_percpu.part.0+0x6b/0x330 clocksource_watchdog_kthread+0x193/0x1a0

It is due to the fact that clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() is invoked with preemption disabled. This function invokes get_random_u32() to obtain random numbers for choosing CPUs. The batched_entropy_32 local lock and/or the base_crng.lock spinlock in driver/char/random.c will be acquired during the call. In PREEMPT_RT kernel, they are both sleeping locks and so cannot be acquired in atomic context.

Fix this problem by using migrate_disable() to allow smp_processor_id() to be reliably used without introducing atomic context. preempt_disable() is then called after clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() but before the clocksource measurement is being run to avoid introducing unexpected latency.

USN-7510-1 — linux, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15…

Affected: Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-ibm-5.15, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-oracle-5.15, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gkeop, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-ibm, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-intel-iotg, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-kvm, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-lowlatency, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-nvidia and 1 more

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Network block device driver; - Bus devices; - Character device driver; - TPM device driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - I2C subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Media drivers; - NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver; - Network drivers; - PCI subsystem; - PPS (Pulse Per Second) driver; - PTP clock framework; - RapidIO drivers; - Real Time Clock drivers; - SLIMbus drivers; - QCOM SoC drivers; - Trusted Execution Environment drivers; - TTY drivers; - USB DSL drivers; - USB Device Class drivers; - USB core drivers; - USB Gadget drivers; - USB Host Controller drivers; - Renesas USBHS Controller drivers; - ACRN Hypervisor Service Module driver; - File systems infrastructure; - BTRFS file system; - F2FS file system; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - NILFS2 file system; - Overlay file system; - SMB network file system; - UBI file system; - KVM subsystem; - L3 Master device support module; - Process Accounting mechanism; - Padata parallel execution mechanism; - printk logging mechanism; - Scheduler infrastructure; - Timer subsystem; - Tracing infrastructure…

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CVE-2025-21767 — clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context

USN-7510-1 — linux, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15…