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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-50297

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 11/18/2024 9:16:31 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description 

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

net: xilinx: axienet: Enqueue Tx packets in dql before dmaengine starts

Enqueue packets in dql after dma engine starts causes race condition.
Tx transfer starts once dma engine is started and may execute dql dequeue
in completion before it gets queued. It results in following kernel crash
while running iperf stress test:

kernel BUG at lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c:99!
<snip>
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
pc : dql_completed+0x238/0x248
lr : dql_completed+0x3c/0x248

Call trace:
  dql_completed+0x238/0x248
  axienet_dma_tx_cb+0xa0/0x170
  xilinx_dma_do_tasklet+0xdc/0x290
  tasklet_action_common+0xf8/0x11c
  tasklet_action+0x30/0x3c
  handle_softirqs+0xf8/0x230
<snip>

Start dmaengine after enqueue in dql fixes the crash.

								
								
					

					

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						Reference
						
							
							
								
							
								

								
							
							
								
							
						
								
							
								
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ccdcdf186aec6b9111845fd37e1757e9b413e2f [No types assigned]

								
								
					

					

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						Reference
						
							
							
								
							
								

								
							
							
								
							
						
								
							
								
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/def3dee25cbd1c9b2ed443c3f6180e952563de77 [No types assigned]