CVE-2025-38521 – Imagination DRM GPU Runtime PM Callbacks Vulnerability

CVE ID : CVE-2025-38521

Published : Aug. 16, 2025, 11:15 a.m. | 45 minutes ago

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

drm/imagination: Fix kernel crash when hard resetting the GPU

The GPU hard reset sequence calls pm_runtime_force_suspend() and
pm_runtime_force_resume(), which according to their documentation should
only be used during system-wide PM transitions to sleep states.

The main issue though is that depending on some internal runtime PM
state as seen by pm_runtime_force_suspend() (whether the usage count is

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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