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CVE-2022-49446 Detail

Description

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f97ebc58d5fc83ca1528cd553fa725472ab3ca8 Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fd853fdb40afc052de338693df1372f2ead7be7 Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/641649f31e20df630310f5c22f26c071acc676d4 Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceb924ee16b2c8e48dcac3d9ad6be01c40b5a228 Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6829d1bd3c4b58296ee9e412f7ed4d6cb390192 Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-667 Improper Locking cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2022-49446
NVD Published Date:
02/26/2025
NVD Last Modified:
03/17/2025
Source:
kernel.org