Vulnerability CVE-2024-42290

Vulnerability CVE-2024-42290

Published: 2024-08-17

Description:

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

irqchip/imx-irqsteer: Handle runtime power management correctly

The power domain is automatically activated from clk_prepare(). However, on
certain platforms like i.MX8QM and i.MX8QXP, the power-on handling invokes
sleeping functions, which triggers the 'scheduling while atomic' bug in the
context switch path during device probing:

BUG: scheduling while atomic: kworker/u13:1/48/0x00000002
Call trace:
__schedule_bug+0x54/0x6c
__schedule+0x7f0/0xa94
schedule+0x5c/0xc4
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x24/0x40
__mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x2c0/0x540
__mutex_lock_slowpath+0x14/0x20
mutex_lock+0x48/0x54
clk_prepare_lock+0x44/0xa0
clk_prepare+0x20/0x44
imx_irqsteer_resume+0x28/0xe0
pm_generic_runtime_resume+0x2c/0x44
__genpd_runtime_resume+0x30/0x80
genpd_runtime_resume+0xc8/0x2c0
__rpm_callback+0x48/0x1d8
rpm_callback+0x6c/0x78
rpm_resume+0x490/0x6b4
__pm_runtime_resume+0x50/0x94
irq_chip_pm_get+0x2c/0xa0
__irq_do_set_handler+0x178/0x24c
irq_set_chained_handler_and_data+0x60/0xa4
mxc_gpio_probe+0x160/0x4b0

Cure this by implementing the irq_bus_lock/sync_unlock() interrupt chip
callbacks and handle power management in them as they are invoked from
non-atomic context.

[ tglx: Rewrote change log, added Fixes tag ]

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58c56735facb225a5c46fa4b8bbbe7f31d1cb894

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21bd3f9e7f924cd2fc892a484e7a50c7e1847565

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8ae38f1dfe652779c7c613facbc257cec00ac44

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33b1c47d1fc0b5f06a393bb915db85baacba18ea

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