CVE-2024-44956 - " Linux DRM Deadlock Vulnerability"

CVE ID : CVE-2024-44956
Published : Sept. 4, 2024, 7:15 p.m. | 24 minutes ago
Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/preempt_fence: enlarge the fence critical section It is really easy to introduce subtle deadlocks in preempt_fence_work_func() since we operate on single global ordered-wq for signalling our preempt fences behind the scenes, so even though we signal a particular fence, everything in the callback should be in the fence critical section, since blocking in the callback will prevent other published fences from signalling. If we enlarge the fence critical section to cover the entire callback, then lockdep should be able to understand this better, and complain if we grab a sensitive lock like vm->lock, which is also held when waiting on preempt fences.
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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