| From bippy-5f407fcff5a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
| To: <linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org> |
| Reply-to: <cve@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> |
| Subject: CVE-2024-36970: wifi: iwlwifi: Use request_module_nowait |
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| Description |
| =========== |
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| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: |
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| wifi: iwlwifi: Use request_module_nowait |
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| This appears to work around a deadlock regression that came in |
| with the LED merge in 6.9. |
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| The deadlock happens on my system with 24 iwlwifi radios, so maybe |
| it something like all worker threads are busy and some work that needs |
| to complete cannot complete. |
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| [also remove unnecessary "load_module" var and now-wrong comment] |
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| The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-36970 to this issue. |
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| Affected and fixed versions |
| =========================== |
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| Issue introduced in 6.9 with commit f5c31bcf604db54470868f3118a60dc4a9ba8813 and fixed in 6.9.2 with commit d20013259539e2fde2deeac85354851097afdf9e |
| Issue introduced in 6.9 with commit f5c31bcf604db54470868f3118a60dc4a9ba8813 and fixed in 6.10 with commit 3d913719df14c28c4d3819e7e6d150760222bda4 |
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| Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported |
| kernel versions by the kernel community. |
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| Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to |
| older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at |
| https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2024-36970 |
| will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most |
| up to date information about this issue. |
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| Affected files |
| ============== |
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| The file(s) affected by this issue are: |
| drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c |
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| Mitigation |
| ========== |
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| The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest |
| stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual |
| changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel |
| release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or |
| supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to |
| the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this |
| issue can be found at these commits: |
| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d20013259539e2fde2deeac85354851097afdf9e |
| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d913719df14c28c4d3819e7e6d150760222bda4 |
