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Linux Linux — net: ravb: Fix missing rtnl lock in suspend/resume path
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0020 9.6 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 0184165b2f42c4b032da9dd11546bfbaeb5afd4e – —
Linux 4.9 – 6.12.13
TIMELINE
Dec 29 Reserved by Linux
Feb 27 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-21801 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ravb: Fix missing rtnl lock in suspend/resume path
Fix the suspend/resume path by ensuring the rtnl lock is held where
required. Calls to ravb_open, ravb_close and wol operations must be
performed under the rtnl lock to prevent conflicts with ongoing ndo
operations.
Without this fix, the following warning is triggered:
[ 39.032969] =============================
[ 39.032983] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[ 39.033019] -----------------------------
[ 39.033033] drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c:2004 suspicious
rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
...
[ 39.033597] stack backtrace:
[ 39.033613] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 174 Comm: python3 Not tainted
6.13.0-rc7-next-20250116-arm64-renesas-00002-g35245dfdc62c #7
[ 39.033623] Hardware name: Renesas SMARC EVK version 2 based on
r9a08g045s33 (DT)
[ 39.033628] Call trace:
[ 39.033633] show_stack+0x14/0x1c (C)
[ 39.033652] dump_stack_lvl+0xb4/0xc4
[ 39.033664] dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
[ 39.033671] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x16c/0x22c
[ 39.033682] phy_detach+0x160/0x190
[ 39.033694] phy_disconnect+0x40/0x54
[ 39.033703] ravb_close+0x6c/0x1cc
[ 39.033714] ravb_suspend+0x48/0x120
[ 39.033721] dpm_run_callback+0x4c/0x14c
[ 39.033731] device_suspend+0x11c/0x4dc
[ 39.033740] dpm_suspend+0xdc/0x214
[ 39.033748] dpm_suspend_start+0x48/0x60
[ 39.033758] suspend_devices_and_enter+0x124/0x574
[ 39.033769] pm_suspend+0x1ac/0x274
[ 39.033778] state_store+0x88/0x124
[ 39.033788] kobj_attr_store+0x14/0x24
[ 39.033798] sysfs_kf_write+0x48/0x6c
[ 39.033808] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x118/0x1a8
[ 39.033817] vfs_write+0x27c/0x378
[ 39.033825] ksys_write+0x64/0xf4
[ 39.033833] __arm64_sys_write+0x18/0x20
[ 39.033841] invoke_syscall+0x44/0x104
[ 39.033852] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb4/0xd4
[ 39.033862] do_el0_svc+0x18/0x20
[ 39.033870] el0_svc+0x3c/0xf0
[ 39.033880] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc4
[ 39.033888] el0t_64_sync+0x154/0x158
[ 39.041274] ravb 11c30000.ethernet eth0: Link is Down
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| December 29, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| February 27, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-21801 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 0184165b2f42c4b032da9dd11546bfbaeb5afd4e | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 4.9 | 6.12.13 |
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