CVE-2024-44956
Published: Sep 4, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/preempt_fence: enlarge the fence critical section It is really easy to introduce subtle deadlocks in preempt_fence_work_func() since we operate on single global ordered-wq for signalling our preempt fences behind the scenes, so even though we signal a particular fence, everything in the callback should be in the fence critical section, since blocking in the callback will prevent other published fences from signalling. If we enlarge the fence critical section to cover the entire callback, then lockdep should be able to understand this better, and complain if we grab a sensitive lock like vm->lock, which is also held when waiting on preempt fences.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 - < 458bb83119dfee5d14c677f7846dd9363817006faffected dd08ebf6c3525a7ea2186e636df064ea47281987 - < 3cd1585e57908b6efcd967465ef7685f40b2a294 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.8unaffected 0 - < 6.8unaffected 6.10.5 - <= 6.10.*unaffected 6.11 - <= * |
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