In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
Jul 30, 2024
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Aug 23, 2024
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jul 30, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jul 30, 2024
Last updated
Aug 23, 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: kexec: Avoid deadlock in kexec crash path
If the kexec crash code is called in the interrupt context, the
machine_kexec_mask_interrupts() function will trigger a deadlock while
trying to acquire the irqdesc spinlock and then deactivate irqchip in
irq_set_irqchip_state() function.
Unlike arm64, riscv only requires irq_eoi handler to complete EOI and
keeping irq_set_irqchip_state() will only leave this possible deadlock
without any use. So we simply remove it.
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