CVE-2024-42140

riscv: kexec: Avoid deadlock in kexec crash path

published July 30, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

riscv: kexec: Avoid deadlock in kexec crash path

If the kexec crash code is called in the interrupt context, the

machine_kexec_mask_interrupts() function will trigger a deadlock while

trying to acquire the irqdesc spinlock and then deactivate irqchip in

irq_set_irqchip_state() function.

Unlike arm64, riscv only requires irq_eoi handler to complete EOI and

keeping irq_set_irqchip_state() will only leave this possible deadlock

without any use. So we simply remove it.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00199 · 9.2th percentile
Published
2024-07-30T07:46Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 JUL 07:46Z
    riscv: kexec: Avoid deadlock in kexec crash path
    cvelistv5