CVE-2024-26690

CVE-2024-26690

High · published April 3, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
57.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: stmmac: protect updates of 64-bit statistics counters

As explained by a comment in <linux/u64_stats_sync.h>, write side of struct

u64_stats_sync must ensure mutual exclusion, or one seqcount update could

be lost on 32-bit platforms, thus blocking readers forever. Such lockups

have been observed in real world after stmmac_xmit() on one CPU raced with

stmmac_napi_poll_tx() on another CPU.

To fix the issue without introducing a new lock, split the statics into

three parts:

1. fields updated only under the tx queue lock,

2. fields updated only during NAPI poll,

3. fields updated only from interrupt context,

Updates to fields in the first two groups are already serialized through

other locks. It is sufficient to split the existing struct u64_stats_sync

so that each group has its own.

Note that tx_set_ic_bit is updated from both contexts. Split this counter

so that each context gets its own, and calculate their sum to get the total

value in stmmac_get_ethtool_stats().

For the third group, multiple interrupts may be processed by different CPUs

at the same time, but interrupts on the same CPU will not nest. Move fields

from this group to a newly created per-cpu struct stmmac_pcpu_stats.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00843 · 57.5th percentile
Published
2024-04-03T19:15Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.6, < 6.6.186.6.18
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.7.66.7.6
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 APR 14:54Z
    net: stmmac: protect updates of 64-bit statistics counters
    cvelistv5