CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47617
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-06-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: pciehp: Fix infinite loop in IRQ handler upon power fault
The Power Fault Detected bit in the Slot Status register differs from
all other hotplug events in that it is sticky: It can only be cleared
after turning off slot power. Per PCIe r5.0, sec. 6.7.1.8:
If a power controller detects a main power fault on the hot-plug slot,
it must automatically set its internal main power fault latch [...].
The main power fault latch is cleared when software turns off power to
the hot-plug slot.
The stickiness used to cause interrupt storms and infinite loops which
were fixed in 2009 by commits 5651c48cfafe ("PCI pciehp: fix power fault
interrupt storm problem") and 99f0169c17f3 ("PCI: pciehp: enable
software notification on empty slots").
Unfortunately in 2020 the infinite loop issue was inadvertently
reintroduced by commit 8edf5332c393 ("PCI: pciehp: Fix MSI interrupt
race"): The hardirq handler pciehp_isr() clears the PFD bit until
pciehp's power_fault_detected flag is set. That happens in the IRQ
thread pciehp_ist(), which never learns of the event because the hardirq
handler is stuck in an infinite loop. Fix by setting the
power_fault_detected flag already in the hardirq handler.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.149 < 4.19.233)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.69 < 5.4.177)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7 < 5.10.97)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.20)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1db58c6584a72102e98af2e600ea184ddaf2b8af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23584c1ed3e15a6f4bfab8dc5a88d94ab929ee12 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b4c966fb156ff3e70b2526d964952ff7c1574d9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/464da38ba827f670deac6500a1de9a4f0f44c41d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d6f1f0dac3e3441ecdb1103d4efb11b9ed24dd5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff27f7d0333cff89ec85c419f431aca1b38fb16a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1db58c6584a72102e98af2e600ea184ddaf2b8af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23584c1ed3e15a6f4bfab8dc5a88d94ab929ee12 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b4c966fb156ff3e70b2526d964952ff7c1574d9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/464da38ba827f670deac6500a1de9a4f0f44c41d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d6f1f0dac3e3441ecdb1103d4efb11b9ed24dd5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff27f7d0333cff89ec85c419f431aca1b38fb16a Patch