CVE-2022-49446

nvdimm: Fix firmware activation deadlock scenarios

Medium · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

nvdimm: Fix firmware activation deadlock scenarios

Lockdep reports the following deadlock scenarios for CXL root device

power-management, device_prepare(), operations, and device_shutdown()

operations for 'nd_region' devices:

Chain exists of:

&nvdimm_region_key --> &nvdimm_bus->reconfig_mutex --> system_transition_mutex

Possible unsafe locking scenario:

CPU0 CPU1

---- ----

lock(system_transition_mutex);

lock(&nvdimm_bus->reconfig_mutex);

lock(system_transition_mutex);

lock(&nvdimm_region_key);

Chain exists of:

&cxl_nvdimm_bridge_key --> acpi_scan_lock --> &cxl_root_key

Possible unsafe locking scenario:

CPU0 CPU1

---- ----

lock(&cxl_root_key);

lock(acpi_scan_lock);

lock(&cxl_root_key);

lock(&cxl_nvdimm_bridge_key);

These stem from holding nvdimm_bus_lock() over hibernate_quiet_exec()

which walks the entire system device topology taking device_lock() along

the way. The nvdimm_bus_lock() is protecting against unregistration,

multiple simultaneous ops callers, and preventing activate_show() from

racing activate_store(). For the first 2, the lock is redundant.

Unregistration already flushes all ops users, and sysfs already prevents

multiple threads to be active in an ops handler at the same time. For

the last userspace should already be waiting for its last

activate_store() to complete, and does not need activate_show() to flush

the write side, so this lock usage can be deleted in these attributes.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00203 · 9.8th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T02:12Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 02:12Z
    nvdimm: Fix firmware activation deadlock scenarios
    cvelistv5