CVE-2024-44956

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 6.10.5 - Improper Locking in drm/xe/preempt_fence

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/preempt_fence: enlarge the fence critical section It is really easy to introduce subtle deadlocks in preempt_fence_work_func() since we operate on single global ordered-wq for signalling our preempt fences behind the scenes, so even though we signal a particular fence, everything in the callback should be in the fence critical section, since blocking in the callback will prevent other published fences from signalling. If we enlarge the fence critical section to cover the entire callback, then lockdep should be able to understand this better, and complain if we grab a sensitive lock like vm->lock, which is also held when waiting on preempt fences.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.8%
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 (8)
linux/Kernel 6.8.0 - 6.10.5linux
Linux/Linux < 6.8
Linux/Linux 6.10.5 - 6.10.*
Linux/Linux 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.8
Linux/Linux dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 - 3cd1585e57908b6efcd967465ef7685f40b2a294
Linux/Linux dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 - 458bb83119dfee5d14c677f7846dd9363817006f
linux/linux_kernel < 6.10.5
Published Sep 04, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026