CVE-2024-35818

Technical Description

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

LoongArch: Define the __io_aw() hook as mmiowb()

Commit fb24ea52f78e0d595852e ("drivers: Remove explicit invocations of

mmiowb()") remove all mmiowb() in drivers, but it says:

"NOTE: mmiowb() has only ever guaranteed ordering in conjunction with

spin_unlock(). However, pairing each mmiowb() removal in this patch with

the corresponding call to spin_unlock() is not at all trivial, so there

is a small chance that this change may regress any drivers incorrectly

relying on mmiowb() to order MMIO writes between CPUs using lock-free

synchronisation."

The mmio in radeon_ring_commit() is protected by a mutex rather than a

spinlock, but in the mutex fastpath it behaves similar to spinlock. We

can add mmiowb() calls in the radeon driver but the maintainer says he

doesn't like such a workaround, and radeon is not the only example of

mutex protected mmio.

So we should extend the mmiowb tracking system from spinlock to mutex,

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Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

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