CVE-2024-50196

pinctrl: ocelot: fix system hang on level based interrupts

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Nov 8, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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Description

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

pinctrl: ocelot: fix system hang on level based interrupts

The current implementation only calls chained_irq_enter() and chained_irq_exit() if it detects pending interrupts.

``` for (i = 0; i < info->stride; i++) { uregmap_read(info->map, id_reg + 4 * i, &reg); if (!reg) continue;

chained_irq_enter(parent_chip, desc); ```

However, in case of GPIO pin configured in level mode and the parent controller configured in edge mode, GPIO interrupt might be lowered by the hardware. In the result, if the interrupt is short enough, the parent interrupt is still pending while the GPIO interrupt is cleared; chained_irq_enter() never gets called and the system hangs trying to service the parent interrupt.

Moving chained_irq_enter() and chained_irq_exit() outside the for loop ensures that they are called even when GPIO interrupt is lowered by the hardware.

The similar code with chained_irq_enter() / chained_irq_exit() functions wrapping interrupt checking loop may be found in many other drivers: ``` grep -r -A 10 chained_irq_enter drivers/pinctrl ```

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ce8dc0943357a5d10b05dcf0556b537c1d7b8b1f to before 655f5d4662b958122b260be05aa6dfdf8768efe6Affected
  • ce8dc0943357a5d10b05dcf0556b537c1d7b8b1f to before 4a81800ef05bea5a9896f199677f7b7f5020776aAffected
  • ce8dc0943357a5d10b05dcf0556b537c1d7b8b1f to before 20728e86289ab463b99b7ab4425515bd26aba417Affected
  • ce8dc0943357a5d10b05dcf0556b537c1d7b8b1f to before dcbe9954634807ec54e22bde278b5b269f921381Affected
  • ce8dc0943357a5d10b05dcf0556b537c1d7b8b1f to before 93b8ddc54507a227087c60a0013ed833b6ae7d3cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.16Affected
  • before 4.16Not affected
  • 5.15.169 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.114 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.58 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.11.5 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

References

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