* [CVE-2025-37847][LOW] accel/ivpu: Fix deadlock in ivpu_ms_cleanup()
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CVE: CVE-2025-37847
Priority: LOW
AL-KERNEL base severity: LOW
KPANIC flag: NO
Patch: accel/ivpu: Fix deadlock in ivpu_ms_cleanup()
Commit: 7d12a7d43c7bab9097ba466581d8db702e7908dc
Upstream patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=7d12a7d43c7bab9097ba466581d8db702e7908dc
Original CVE announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/?q=CVE-2025-37847
Analysis date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:07:06 -0400
ActionableScore: 1
ActionableScore lower bound: unknown
Actionable bucket: Ordinary Moderate
Manual review required: NO
Summary:
No one-sentence report phrase was found.
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ABOUT THIS REPORT
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The original Linux kernel CVE announcement for CVE-2025-37847 is available here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/?q=CVE-2025-37847
The original announcement does not normally provide a security severity
estimate, CVSS assessment, or enough information to determine whether the
reported kernel bug represents a practically relevant security issue.
This report was generated by AL-KERNEL, an AI-assisted Linux kernel
vulnerability analysis system developed by Alexander Larkin. It combines
an autonomous classifier with LLM-assisted technical analysis and a
separate ActionableScore mechanism.
The purpose of this report is to prioritize Linux kernel CVEs before
manual review, identify cases that require prompt investigation, and
support automatic closure of issues that are unlikely to have meaningful
security impact.
Published priority for this report: LOW
Manual review required: NO
A detailed explanation of the methodology and priority rules is included
at the end of this message.
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AL-KERNEL CLASSIFICATION RESULT
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CVE-2025-37847 LOW https://www.kernelcve.org/list/?q=CVE-2025-37847 CHECK WITH IMPACT FROM ORIG NN MODERATE | AEGIS IMPACT LOW AEGIS_AS=0 LEGACY=LOW RESULT=SAME (legacy and Aegis reconciliation agree; DECISION: both LOW) Maybe valid. Check manually. Hints by AL-KERNEL: The best (paranoid) CVSS is 'AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H';*CWE-833;CWE-667;Other CVSS 'AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L';BEST CVSS score: '4.7';DESCR 'A deadlock can occur in ivpu_ms_cleanup() because runtime resume may be initiated while file_priv ms_lock is held. If runtime resume fails, the IVPU cold boot path calls ivpu_ms_cleanup_all(), which enters ivpu_ms_cleanup() again and attempts to acquire the same lock. Triggering requires local access to the IVPU device, an active NPU profiling state, runtime suspension, and a resume failure, so the attack complexity is high. For the CVSS the PR:L value is used because a local process with permission to access the IVPU device can reach the relevant file cleanup and profiling paths without full host administrative privileges. The issue is not network reachable. Impact is denial of service through a stalled cleanup or recovery path and possible loss of IVPU availability. There is no supported memory corruption primitive or credible privilege escalation path.';NO MANUAL CHECK; ,and ActionableScore result is Ordinary Moderate (with actual score 1) MAYBE DEADLOCK SIMPLEFIX DECREASED_TO_LOW_FROM_MODERATE_BASED_ON_GUESSCVSS_AND_CIANNH - - checked
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ACTIONABLESCORE ANALYSIS
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ActionableScore=1
PrimitiveClass=CLASS_C
RealUAF=NO
HostAdminRequired=UNKNOWN
NamespaceScopedPrivilege=NO
ImportantCandidate=NO
ManualReview=NO
AutoDowngradeAllowed=YES
RequiresHostUID0=UNKNOWN
AuthorizationDecisionBypass=NO
ProtectedResourceImpact=NONE
B4PendingReview=NO
B4PendingConfirmed=NO
1. ActionableScore
* Raw conservative score: 1
* Conservative score: 1
* Raw paranoid score: 1
* Paranoid score: 1
* No floor or cap applied.
* Final recommended bucket: **Ordinary Moderate**::
2. Signal breakdown
Positive signals:
* +1 Concrete denial of service. A failed runtime resume can re-enter `ivpu_ms_cleanup()` through cold boot and `ivpu_ms_cleanup_all()`, causing recursive acquisition of `file_priv->ms_lock` and stalling cleanup or IVPU recovery.
Negative signals:
* No negative points. Host-admin privilege is not established, so no privilege penalty is applied.
* No hardware rarity penalty. Intel IVPU hardware is required, but the supplied evidence does not establish physical-only access or sufficiently rare hardware.
Important non-awarded signals:
* No UAF, OOB access, heap overwrite, refcount corruption, or stale-object use is established.
* No controlled reclaim, arbitrary write, information disclosure, or privilege-escalation primitive is demonstrated.
* No remote reachability or ordinary unprivileged reachability bonus is awarded.
* No extra Availability point is awarded because the device cleanup deadlock is the only demonstrated consequence.
* B5-R does not apply. There is no retry-accumulated heap OOB write or later consumption of corrupted structured state.
* B3-PENDING does not apply. There is no shared-backing write.
* B4-PENDING does not apply. No authorization decision changes from DENY to ALLOW.
3. Reachability analysis
The vulnerable sequence requires an IVPU device, an `ivpu_file_priv` participating in NPU profiling cleanup, runtime suspension, and a failed runtime resume that initiates cold boot. Cold boot then invokes `ivpu_ms_cleanup_all()`, which re-enters cleanup and attempts to acquire the same mutex.
The exact device-node permissions and the complete userspace sequence needed to create the relevant profiling state are not shown. Therefore, below-host-admin reachability is not positively established, but host-admin-equivalent privilege is also not established. `HostAdminRequired` is consequently `UNKNOWN`.
The path is device-file based rather than namespace-capability based. No attacker-created namespace or namespace-scoped capability completes the trigger. No network trigger exists. This is an ordered re-entrant failure path, not a timing race, so no race penalty is applied.
4. Primitive and severity interpretation
The exact defect is recursive mutex acquisition caused by runtime PM re-entry:
`ivpu_ms_cleanup()` enters runtime resume while holding `ms_lock`, resume failure initiates cold boot, and cold boot reaches `ivpu_ms_cleanup()` again through `ivpu_ms_cleanup_all()`.
This is a deadlock and device-availability defect, classified as `CLASS_C`. It is not an active-object UAF, fixed stale-storage UAF, repeated release, or memory-corruption primitive. The demonstrated consequence is a stalled cleanup or recovery path and possible loss of IVPU availability. Host-wide kernel panic, confidentiality impact, integrity impact, and privilege escalation are not supported.
`ImportantCandidate=NO` because no corruption, lifetime, ownership, authorization, or cross-boundary primitive remains unresolved. `AutoDowngradeAllowed=YES` because the evidence supports only a hardware-specific deadlock and device-local DoS.
5. One-sentence report phrase
A failed IVPU runtime resume can recursively enter profiling cleanup and deadlock on file_priv ms_lock, potentially leaving the IVPU cleanup or recovery path unavailable.
6. Manual review recommendation
NO MANUAL CHECK NEEDED
The patch addresses a concrete but constrained lock-ordering deadlock without memory corruption, authorization bypass, host-wide crash evidence, or an Important-preserving primitive.
7. Call-site confidence
Call-site confidence: medium
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UPSTREAM PATCH SUMMARY
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Patch: accel/ivpu: Fix deadlock in ivpu_ms_cleanup()
Commit: 7d12a7d43c7bab9097ba466581d8db702e7908dc
Upstream URL: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=7d12a7d43c7bab9097ba466581d8db702e7908dc
Commit description:
Fix deadlock in ivpu_ms_cleanup() by preventing runtime resume after
file_priv->ms_lock is acquired.
During a failure in runtime resume, a cold boot is executed, which
calls ivpu_ms_cleanup_all(). This function calls ivpu_ms_cleanup()
that acquires file_priv->ms_lock and causes the deadlock.
Fixes: cdfad4d ("accel/ivpu: Add NPU profiling support")
Cc: [email protected] # v6.11+
Signed-off-by: Maciej Falkowski <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Lizhi Hou <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jacek Lawrynowicz <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Changed files:
drivers/accel/ivpu/ivpu_ms.c
Diff excerpt:
Not included in this email. See the upstream URL for the full patch.
Full patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=7d12a7d43c7bab9097ba466581d8db702e7908dc
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DETAILED REPORT METHODOLOGY
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The original Linux kernel CVE announcement for CVE-2025-37847 can be found here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/?q=CVE-2025-37847
The original CVE announcement normally does not include a security-level
estimate. In particular, it may not contain a CVSS assessment, an impact
level, or enough information to determine whether the reported bug is a
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The original goal of the AL-KERNEL project was to prioritize Linux kernel
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information often permits more than one defensible interpretation:
Conservative CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
The Best / paranoid CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
The Best / paranoid CVSS score: 4.7
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Conservative ActionableScore: unknown
Paranoid ActionableScore: 1
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