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Linux Linux — smc91x: fix broken irq-context in PREEMPT_RT
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0024 15.7 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 342a93247e0837101f27bbcca26f402902df98dc – —
Linux 5.15 – 5.15.198
TIMELINE
Jan 13 Reserved by Linux
Jan 14 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-71132 (Linux). CVSS 7.5 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smc91x: fix broken irq-context in PREEMPT_RT
When smc91x.c is built with PREEMPT_RT, the following splat occurs
in FVP_RevC:
[ 13.055000] smc91x LNRO0003:00 eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0000
[ 13.062137] BUG: workqueue leaked atomic, lock or RCU: kworker/2:1[106]
[ 13.062137] preempt=0x00000000 lock=0->0 RCU=0->1 workfn=mld_ifc_work
[ 13.062266] C
** replaying previous printk message **
[ 13.062266] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 106 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 6.18.0-dirty #179 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
[ 13.062353] Hardware name: , BIOS
[ 13.062382] Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
[ 13.062469] Call trace:
[ 13.062494] show_stack+0x24/0x40 (C)
[ 13.062602] __dump_stack+0x28/0x48
[ 13.062710] dump_stack_lvl+0x7c/0xb0
[ 13.062818] dump_stack+0x18/0x34
[ 13.062926] process_scheduled_works+0x294/0x450
[ 13.063043] worker_thread+0x260/0x3d8
[ 13.063124] kthread+0x1c4/0x228
[ 13.063235] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
This happens because smc_special_trylock() disables IRQs even on PREEMPT_RT,
but smc_special_unlock() does not restore IRQs on PREEMPT_RT.
The reason is that smc_special_unlock() calls spin_unlock_irqrestore(),
and rcu_read_unlock_bh() in __dev_queue_xmit() cannot invoke
rcu_read_unlock() through __local_bh_enable_ip() when current->softirq_disable_cnt becomes zero.
To address this issue, replace smc_special_trylock() with spin_trylock_irqsave().
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| January 13, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| January 14, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-71132 (Linux). CVSS 7.5 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 342a93247e0837101f27bbcca26f402902df98dc | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5.15 | 5.15.198 |
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