Vulnerability CVE-2024-44957


Published: 2024-09-04

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

xen: privcmd: Switch from mutex to spinlock for irqfds

irqfd_wakeup() gets EPOLLHUP, when it is called by
eventfd_release() by way of wake_up_poll(&ctx->wqh, EPOLLHUP), which
gets called under spin_lock_irqsave(). We can't use a mutex here as it
will lead to a deadlock.

Fix it by switching over to a spin lock.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2775ae4d9227729f8ca9ee2a068f62a00d5ea9c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49f2a5da6785b2dbde93e291cae037662440346e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c682593096a487fd9aebc079a307ff7a6d054a3

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