CVE-2024-44956

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedSep 4, 2024
First seenSep 4, 2024

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel6.10.5 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv < 6.10.56.10.5

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