CVE-2024-44949

parisc: fix a possible DMA corruption

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 4, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Aug 21, 2024

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Description

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

parisc: fix a possible DMA corruption

ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN was defined as 16 - this is too small - it may be possible that two unrelated 16-byte allocations share a cache line. If one of these allocations is written using DMA and the other is written using cached write, the value that was written with DMA may be corrupted.

This commit changes ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to be 128 on PA20 and 32 on PA1.1 - that's the largest possible cache line size.

As different parisc microarchitectures have different cache line size, we define arch_slab_minalign(), cache_line_size() and dma_get_cache_alignment() so that the kernel may tune slab cache parameters dynamically, based on the detected cache line size.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a01fece2e4185ac173abd16d10304d73d47ebf00 to before 00baca74fb5879e5f9034b6156671301f500f8eeAffected
  • a01fece2e4185ac173abd16d10304d73d47ebf00 to before 642a0b7453daff0295310774016fcb56d1f5bc7fAffected
  • a01fece2e4185ac173abd16d10304d73d47ebf00 to before 533de2f470baac40d3bf622fe631f15231a03c9fAffected
  • a01fece2e4185ac173abd16d10304d73d47ebf00 to before 7ae04ba36b381bffe2471eff3a93edced843240fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.4Affected
  • before 4.4Not affected
  • 6.1.119 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.46 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.10.5 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11 and laterNot affected

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