Tracker / CVE-2025-21871
CVE-2025-21871
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tee: optee: Fix supplicant wait loop OP-TEE supplicant is a user-space daemon and it's possible for it be hung or crashed or killed in the middle of processing an OP-TEE RPC call. It becomes more complicated when there is incorrect shutdown ordering of the supplicant process vs the OP-TEE client application which can eventually lead to system hang-up waiting for the closure of the client application. Allow the client process waiting in kernel for supplicant response to be killed rather than indefinitely waiting in an unkillable state. Also, a normal uninterruptible wait should not have resulted in the hung-task watchdog getting triggered, but the endless loop would. This fixes issues observed during system reboot/shutdown when supplicant got hung for some reason or gets crashed/killed which lead to client getting hung in an unkillable state. It in turn lead to system being in hung up state requiring hard power off/on to recover.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.12 → 5.4.291 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.179 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.130 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.235 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.13.5 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.80 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.17 |