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CVE-2024-35990 — Linux Linux Kernel security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dma: xilinx_dpdma: Fix locking There are several places where either chan->lock or chan->vchan.lock was not held. Add appropriate locking. This fixes lockdep warnings like [ 31.077578] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 31.077831] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 40 at drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dpdma.c:834 xilinx_dpdma_chan_queue_transfer+0x274/0x5e0 [ 31.077953] Modules linked in: [ 31.078019] CPU: 2 PID: 40 Comm: kworker/u12:1 Not tainted 6.6.20+ #98 [ 31.078102] Hardware name: xlnx,zynqmp (DT) [ 31.078169] Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func [ 31.078272] pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 31.078377] pc : xilinx_dpdma_chan_queue_transfer+0x274/0x5e0 [ 31.078473] lr : xilinx_dpdma_chan_queue_transfer+0x270/0x5e0 [ 31.078550] sp : ffffffc083bb2e10 [ 31.078590] x29: ffffffc083bb2e10 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffffff880165a168 [ 31.078754] x26: ffffff880164e920 x25: ffffff880164eab8 x24: ffffff880164d480 [ 31.078920] x23: ffffff880165a148 x22: ffffff880164e988 x21: 0000000000000000 [ 31.079132] x20: ffffffc082aa3000 x19: ffffff880164e880 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 31.079295] x17: 0…

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2024-05-20
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
linux/kernel
Weaknesses
CWE-667

Affected products

  • linux / linux_kernel

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Matched remediation archetype

Race condition, TOCTOU, and lifecycle synchronization

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Check exposure

  • Map concurrent actors, shared state, lock boundaries, signals, callbacks, retries, and check-then-use sequences in the affected path.
  • Determine whether untrusted users can influence timing, object names, filesystem state, or repeated state transitions.
  • Identify clustered and multi-process behavior that repository-local tests may not represent.

Remediate safely

  • Make the sensitive state transition atomic or protect it with a consistently ordered synchronization primitive.
  • Perform authorization and invariant checks on the same authoritative object and transaction used for the operation.
  • Use unique private resources, safe ownership transfer, and idempotent operations; add deterministic concurrency regression tests.

Authoritative sources

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