CVE-2024-46706

tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: mark last busy before uart_add_one_port

published September 13, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: mark last busy before uart_add_one_port

With "earlycon initcall_debug=1 loglevel=8" in bootargs, kernel

sometimes boot hang. It is because normal console still is not ready,

but runtime suspend is called, so early console putchar will hang

in waiting TRDE set in UARTSTAT.

The lpuart driver has auto suspend delay set to 3000ms, but during

uart_add_one_port, a child device serial ctrl will added and probed with

its pm runtime enabled(see serial_ctrl.c).

The runtime suspend call path is:

device_add

|-> bus_probe_device

|->device_initial_probe

|->__device_attach

|-> pm_runtime_get_sync(dev->parent);

|-> pm_request_idle(dev);

|-> pm_runtime_put(dev->parent);

So in the end, before normal console ready, the lpuart get runtime

suspended. And earlycon putchar will hang.

To address the issue, mark last busy just after pm_runtime_enable,

three seconds is long enough to switch from bootconsole to normal

console.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00215 · 11.3th percentile
Published
2024-09-13T06:27Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 SEP 06:27Z
    tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: mark last busy before uart_add_one_port
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