CVE-2024-38597

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 3.1-6.9.3 Deadlock via Netpoll Interrupt Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: sungem: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks Erhard reports netpoll warnings from sungem: netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(): eth0 enabled interrupts in poll (gem_start_xmit+0x0/0x398) WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at net/core/netpoll.c:370 netpoll_send_skb+0x1fc/0x20c gem_poll_controller() disables interrupts, which may sleep. We can't sleep in netpoll, it has interrupts disabled completely. Strangely, gem_poll_controller() doesn't even poll the completions, and instead acts as if an interrupt has fired so it just schedules NAPI and exits. None of this has been necessary for years, since netpoll invokes NAPI directly.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (23)
linux/Kernel 3.1.0 - 5.10.219linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.161linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.93linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.33linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.8.12linux
linux/Kernel 6.9.0 - 6.9.3linux
Linux/Linux < 3.1
Linux/Linux 3.1
Linux/Linux 5.10.219 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.161 - 5.15.*
... and 13 more
Published Jun 19, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026