CVE-2021-47469

May 22, 2024, 12:46 p.m.

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: Fix deadlock when adding SPI controllers on SPI buses Currently we have a global spi_add_lock which we take when adding new devices so that we can check that we're not trying to reuse a chip select that's already controlled. This means that if the SPI device is itself a SPI controller and triggers the instantiation of further SPI devices we trigger a deadlock as we try to register and instantiate those devices while in the process of doing so for the parent controller and hence already holding the global spi_add_lock. Since we only care about concurrency within a single SPI bus move the lock to be per controller, avoiding the deadlock. This can be easily triggered in the case of spi-mux.

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Linux kernel
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Timeline

Published: May 22, 2024, 7:15 a.m.
Last Modified: May 22, 2024, 12:46 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

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Source

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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