Vulnerability CVE-2024-38553
Published: 2024-06-19

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

net: fec: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks

There is a deadlock issue found in sungem driver, please refer to the
commit ac0a230f719b ("eth: sungem: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid
deadlocks"). The root cause of the issue is that netpoll is in atomic
context and disable_irq() is called by .ndo_poll_controller interface
of sungem driver, however, disable_irq() might sleep. After analyzing
the implementation of fec_poll_controller(), the fec driver should have
the same issue. Due to the fec driver uses NAPI for TX completions, the
.ndo_poll_controller is unnecessary to be implemented in the fec driver,
so fec_poll_controller() can be safely removed.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d38625f71950e79e254515c5fc585552dad4b33e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/accdd6b912c4219b8e056d1f1ad2e85bc66ee243
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87bcbc9b7e0b43a69d44efa5f32f11e32d08fa6f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2e0c58b25a0a0c37ec643255558c5af4450c9f5
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