cve-2024-35971
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-20 09:41
Modified
2024-11-05 09:25
Severity ?
Summary
net: ks8851: Handle softirqs at the end of IRQ thread to fix hang
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/492337a4fbd1421b42df684ee9b34be2a2722540
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49d5d70538b6b8f2a3f8f1ac30c1f921d4a0929b
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be0384bf599cf1eb8d337517feeb732d71f75a6f
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cba376eb036c2c20077b41d47b317d8218fe754f
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 5.8
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