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HistoryMay 17, 2024 - 12:24 p.m.

CVE-2024-35793 debugfs: fix wait/cancellation handling during remove

2024-05-1712:24:56
Linux
github.com
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linux kernel
debugfs
deadlock prevention

AI Score

7

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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

debugfs: fix wait/cancellation handling during remove

Ben Greear further reports deadlocks during concurrent debugfs
remove while files are being accessed, even though the code in
question now uses debugfs cancellations. Turns out that despite
all the review on the locking, we missed completely that the
logic is wrong: if the refcount hits zero we can finish (and
need not wait for the completion), but if it doesn’t we have
to trigger all the cancellations. As written, we can never
get into the loop triggering the cancellations. Fix this, and
explain it better while at it.

AI Score

7

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial