ghsa-hmgj-4596-mmpr
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-06-19 15:30
Modified
2024-08-27 21:31
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-38597"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-667"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-06-19T14:15:19Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\neth: sungem: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks\n\nErhard reports netpoll warnings from sungem:\n\n  netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(): eth0 enabled interrupts in poll (gem_start_xmit+0x0/0x398)\n  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at net/core/netpoll.c:370 netpoll_send_skb+0x1fc/0x20c\n\ngem_poll_controller() disables interrupts, which may sleep.\nWe can\u0027t sleep in netpoll, it has interrupts disabled completely.\nStrangely, gem_poll_controller() doesn\u0027t even poll the completions,\nand instead acts as if an interrupt has fired so it just schedules\nNAPI and exits. None of this has been necessary for years, since\nnetpoll invokes NAPI directly.",
  "id": "GHSA-hmgj-4596-mmpr",
  "modified": "2024-08-27T21:31:13Z",
  "published": "2024-06-19T15:30:54Z",
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