CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-56568
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-12-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362, CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/arm-smmu: Defer probe of clients after smmu device bound
Null pointer dereference occurs due to a race between smmu
driver probe and client driver probe, when of_dma_configure()
for client is called after the iommu_device_register() for smmu driver
probe has executed but before the driver_bound() for smmu driver
has been called.
Following is how the race occurs:
T1:Smmu device probe T2: Client device probe
really_probe()
arm_smmu_device_probe()
iommu_device_register()
really_probe()
platform_dma_configure()
of_dma_configure()
of_dma_configure_id()
of_iommu_configure()
iommu_probe_device()
iommu_init_device()
arm_smmu_probe_device()
arm_smmu_get_by_fwnode()
driver_find_device_by_fwnode()
driver_find_device()
next_device()
klist_next()
/* null ptr
assigned to smmu */
/* null ptr dereference
while smmu->streamid_mask */
driver_bound()
klist_add_tail()
When this null smmu pointer is dereferenced later in
arm_smmu_probe_device, the device crashes.
Fix this by deferring the probe of the client device
until the smmu device has bound to the arm smmu driver.
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Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9 < 5.10.231)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.174)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.120)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.66)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.4)
Related
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/229e6ee43d2a160a1592b83aad620d6027084aad Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a9485918a042e3114890dfbe19839a1897f8b2c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5018696b19bc6c021e934a8a59f4b1dd8c0ac9f8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2527d07c7e9cda2c6165d5edccf74752baac1b0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc02407ea952e20c544a078a6be2e6f008327973 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8f794f387ad21c4696e5cd0626cb6f8a5f6aea5 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html lists.debian.org