drm/radeon: delete radeon_fence_process in is_signaled, no deadlock
CVE-2025-68223

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Key Information:

Vendor

Linux

Status
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 December 2025

What is CVE-2025-68223?

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

drm/radeon: delete radeon_fence_process in is_signaled, no deadlock

Delete the attempt to progress the queue when checking if fence is signaled. This avoids deadlock.

dma-fence_ops::signaled can be called with the fence lock in unknown state. For radeon, the fence lock is also the wait queue lock. This can cause a self deadlock when signaled() tries to make forward progress on the wait queue. But advancing the queue is unneeded because incorrectly returning false from signaled() is perfectly acceptable.

(cherry picked from commit 527ba26e50ec2ca2be9c7c82f3ad42998a75d0db)

Affected Version(s)

Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 73bc12d6a547f9571ce4393acfd73c004e2df9e5

Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 7e3e9b3a44c23c8eac86a41308c05077d6d30f41

Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 9eb00b5f5697bd56baa3222c7a1426fa15bacfb5

References

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2025-68223 : Deadlock Vulnerability in Linux Kernel Affects Radeon Graphics Products