CVE-2024-46706

Technical Description

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

tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: mark last busy before uart_add_one_port

With "earlycon initcall_debug=1 loglevel=8" in bootargs, kernel

sometimes boot hang. It is because normal console still is not ready,

but runtime suspend is called, so early console putchar will hang

in waiting TRDE set in UARTSTAT.

The lpuart driver has auto suspend delay set to 3000ms, but during

uart_add_one_port, a child device serial ctrl will added and probed with

its pm runtime enabled(see serial_ctrl.c).

The runtime suspend call path is:

device_add

|-> bus_probe_device

|->device_initial_probe

|->__device_attach

|-> pm_runtime_get_sync(dev->parent);

|-> pm_request_idle(dev);

|-> pm_runtime_put(dev->parent);

So in the end, before normal console ready, the lpuart get runtime

suspended. And earlycon putchar will hang.

To address the issue, mark last busy just after pm_runtime_enable,

th

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

References