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GHSA-2HGC-W527-6CXW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-06-19 15:30 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:30

Details

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

net: fec: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks

There is a deadlock issue found in sungem driver, please refer to the commit ac0a230f719b ("eth: sungem: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks"). The root cause of the issue is that netpoll is in atomic context and disable_irq() is called by .ndo_poll_controller interface of sungem driver, however, disable_irq() might sleep. After analyzing the implementation of fec_poll_controller(), the fec driver should have the same issue. Due to the fec driver uses NAPI for TX completions, the .ndo_poll_controller is unnecessary to be implemented in the fec driver, so fec_poll_controller() can be safely removed.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2024-38553 (GCVE-0-2024-38553)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-19 13:35 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:18

Title

net: fec: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fec: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks There is a deadlock issue found in sungem driver, please refer to the commit ac0a230f719b ("eth: sungem: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks"). The root cause of the issue is that netpoll is in atomic context and disable_irq() is called by .ndo_poll_controller interface of sungem driver, however, disable_irq() might sleep. After analyzing the implementation of fec_poll_controller(), the fec driver should have the same issue. Due to the fec driver uses NAPI for TX completions, the .ndo_poll_controller is unnecessary to be implemented in the fec driver, so fec_poll_controller() can be safely removed.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 17:14 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d38625f71950e79e2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/accdd6b912c4219b8…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87bcbc9b7e0b43a69…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2e0c58b25a0a0c37…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.2 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.2 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.119 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.33 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.8.12 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.9.3 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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