Bug 2312079 (CVE-2024-46691) - CVE-2024-46691 kernel: usb: typec: ucsi: Move unregister out of atomic section
Summary: CVE-2024-46691 kernel: usb: typec: ucsi: Move unregister out of atomic section
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-46691
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2312209
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Reported: 2024-09-13 06:21 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-09-13 14:47 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-13 06:21:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: typec: ucsi: Move unregister out of atomic section

Commit '9329933699b3 ("soc: qcom: pmic_glink: Make client-lock
non-sleeping")' moved the pmic_glink client list under a spinlock, as it
is accessed by the rpmsg/glink callback, which in turn is invoked from
IRQ context.

This means that ucsi_unregister() is now called from atomic context,
which isn't feasible as it's expecting a sleepable context. An effort is
under way to get GLINK to invoke its callbacks in a sleepable context,
but until then lets schedule the unregistration.

A side effect of this is that ucsi_unregister() can now happen
after the remote processor, and thereby the communication link with it, is
gone. pmic_glink_send() is amended with a check to avoid the resulting NULL
pointer dereference.
This does however result in the user being informed about this error by
the following entry in the kernel log:

  ucsi_glink.pmic_glink_ucsi pmic_glink.ucsi.0: failed to send UCSI write request: -5


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