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Tracker / CVE-2023-52498

CVE-2023-52498

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PM: sleep: Fix possible deadlocks in core system-wide PM code It is reported that in low-memory situations the system-wide resume core code deadlocks, because async_schedule_dev() executes its argument function synchronously if it cannot allocate memory (and not only in that case) and that function attempts to acquire a mutex that is already held. Executing the argument function synchronously from within dpm_async_fn() may also be problematic for ordering reasons (it may cause a consumer device's resume callback to be invoked before a requisite supplier device's one, for example). Address this by changing the code in question to use async_schedule_dev_nocall() for scheduling the asynchronous execution of device suspend and resume functions and to directly run them synchronously if async_schedule_dev_nocall() returns false.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 5.10.210
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.149
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.76
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.15
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.7.3

Analysis

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