CVE-2024-41036

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Deadlock via Improper Locking in ks8851 SPI Chip Variant

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ks8851: Fix deadlock with the SPI chip variant When SMP is enabled and spinlocks are actually functional then there is a deadlock with the 'statelock' spinlock between ks8851_start_xmit_spi and ks8851_irq: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 27s! call trace: queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x100/0x284 do_raw_spin_lock+0x34/0x44 ks8851_start_xmit_spi+0x30/0xb8 ks8851_start_xmit+0x14/0x20 netdev_start_xmit+0x40/0x6c dev_hard_start_xmit+0x6c/0xbc sch_direct_xmit+0xa4/0x22c __qdisc_run+0x138/0x3fc qdisc_run+0x24/0x3c net_tx_action+0xf8/0x130 handle_softirqs+0x1ac/0x1f0 __do_softirq+0x14/0x20 ____do_softirq+0x10/0x1c call_on_irq_stack+0x3c/0x58 do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x28 __irq_exit_rcu+0x54/0x9c irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c el1_interrupt+0x38/0x50 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24 el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68 __netif_schedule+0x6c/0x80 netif_tx_wake_queue+0x38/0x48 ks8851_irq+0xb8/0x2c8 irq_thread_fn+0x2c/0x74 irq_thread+0x10c/0x1b0 kthread+0xc8/0xd8 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 This issue has not been identified earlier because tests were done on a device with SMP disabled and so spinlocks were actually NOPs. Now use spin_(un)lock_bh for TX queue related locking to avoid execution of softirq work synchronously that would lead to a deadlock.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0025
EPSS Percentile 15.8%
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 (21)
linux/Kernel < 6.1.100linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.41linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.9.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.7
Linux/Linux 1092525155eaad5c69ca9f3b6f3e7895a9424d66 - a0c69c492f4a8fad52f0a97565241c926160c9a4
Linux/Linux 30302b41ffdcd194bef27fb3b1a9f2ca53dedb27 - 80ece00137300d74642f2038c8fe5440deaf9f05
Linux/Linux 3dc5d44545453de1de9c53cc529cc960a85933da - 0913ec336a6c0c4a2b296bd9f74f8e41c4c83c8c
Linux/Linux 3dc5d44545453de1de9c53cc529cc960a85933da - 10fec0cd0e8f56ff06c46bb24254c7d8f8f2bbf0
Linux/Linux 5.10.206 - 5.11
Linux/Linux 5.15.146 - 5.16
... and 11 more
Published Jul 29, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026