CVE-2024-43863
Published: Aug 20, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Fix a deadlock in dma buf fence polling Introduce a version of the fence ops that on release doesn't remove the fence from the pending list, and thus doesn't require a lock to fix poll->fence wait->fence unref deadlocks. vmwgfx overwrites the wait callback to iterate over the list of all fences and update their status, to do that it holds a lock to prevent the list modifcations from other threads. The fence destroy callback both deletes the fence and removes it from the list of pending fences, for which it holds a lock. dma buf polling cb unrefs a fence after it's been signaled: so the poll calls the wait, which signals the fences, which are being destroyed. The destruction tries to acquire the lock on the pending fences list which it can never get because it's held by the wait from which it was called. Old bug, but not a lot of userspace apps were using dma-buf polling interfaces. Fix those, in particular this fixes KDE stalls/deadlock.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 2298e804e96eb3635c39519c8287befd92460303 - < 9908dc0d2ef0e4aec8a242c098455729c0e2f017affected 2298e804e96eb3635c39519c8287befd92460303 - < 9e20d028d8d1deb1e7fed18f22ffc01669cf3237affected 2298e804e96eb3635c39519c8287befd92460303 - < 3b933b16c996af8adb6bc1b5748a63dfb41a82bcaffected 2298e804e96eb3635c39519c8287befd92460303 - < a8943969f9ead2fd3044fc826140a21622ef830eaffected 2298e804e96eb3635c39519c8287befd92460303 - < c98ab18b9f315ff977c2c65d7c71298ef98be8e3+1 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.18unaffected 0 - < 3.18unaffected 5.10.238 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.165 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.104 - <= 6.1.*+3 more versions |
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