# CVE-2025-21803: LoongArch: Fix warnings during S3 suspend

> A kernel bug in LoongArch S3 suspend handling causes warnings and potential instability, requiring a patch to prevent system issues.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 27 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-21803, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21803, GHSA-3vq2-wj5j-j897, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21803

## What is CVE-2025-21803?

CVE-2025-21803 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

LoongArch: Fix warnings during S3 suspend

The enable_gpe_wakeup() function calls acpi_enable_all_wakeup_gpes(),
and the later one may call the preempt_schedule_common() function,
resulting in a thread switch and causing the CPU to be in an interrupt
enabled state after the enable_gpe_wakeup() function returns, leading
to the warnings as follow.

[ C0] WARNING: ... at kernel/time/timekeeping.c:845 ktime_get+0xbc/0xc8
[ C0]          ...
[ C0] Call Trace:
[ C0] [<90000000002243b4>] show_stack+0x64/0x188
[ C0] [<900000000164673c>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x88
[ C0] [<90000000002687e4>] __warn+0x8c/0x148
[ C0] [<90000000015e9978>] report_bug+0x1c0/0x2b0
[ C0] [<90000000016478e4>] do_bp+0x204/0x3b8
[ C0] [<90000000025b1924>] exception_handlers+0x1924/0x10000
[ C0] [<9000000000343bbc>] ktime_get+0xbc/0xc8
[ C0] [<9000000000354c08>] tick_sched_timer+0x30/0xb0
[ C0] [<90000000003408e0>] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x160/0x378
[ C0] [<9000000000341f14>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x144/0x388
[ C0] [<9000000000228348>] constant_timer_interrupt+0x38/0x48
[ C0] [<90000000002feba4>] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x64/0x1e8
[ C0] [<90000000002fed48>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x20/0x80
[ C0] [<9000000000306b9c>] handle_percpu_irq+0x5c/0x98
[ C0] [<90000000002fd4a0>] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x30/0x48
[ C0] [<9000000000d0c7b0>] handle_cpu_irq+0x70/0xa8
[ C0] [<9000000001646b30>] handle_loongarch_irq+0x30/0x48
[ C0] [<9000000001646bc8>] do_vint+0x80/0xe0
[ C0] [<90000000002aea1c>] finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x8c/0x2a8
[ C0] [<900000000164e34c>] __schedule+0x314/0xa48
[ C0] [<900000000164ead8>] schedule+0x58/0xf0
[ C0] [<9000000000294a2c>] worker_thread+0x224/0x498
[ C0] [<900000000029d2f0>] kthread+0xf8/0x108
[ C0] [<9000000000221f28>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0xc/0xa4
[ C0]
[ C0] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The root cause is acpi_enable_all_wakeup_gpes() uses a mutex to protect
acpi_hw_enable_all_wakeup_gpes(), and acpi_ut_acquire_mutex() may cause
a thread switch. Since there is no longer concurrent execution during
loongarch_acpi_suspend(), we can call acpi_hw_enable_all_wakeup_gpes()
directly in enable_gpe_wakeup().

The solution is similar to commit 22db06337f590d01 ("ACPI: sleep: Avoid
breaking S3 wakeup due to might_sleep()").

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-21803?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-21803?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-21803 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21803 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-21803 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-21803 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21803 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21803/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21803/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21803
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21803
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21803

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.