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CVE-2024-50297

Disclosure Date: November 19, 2024
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Description

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

net: xilinx: axienet: Enqueue Tx packets in dql before dmaengine starts

Enqueue packets in dql after dma engine starts causes race condition.
Tx transfer starts once dma engine is started and may execute dql dequeue
in completion before it gets queued. It results in following kernel crash
while running iperf stress test:

kernel BUG at lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c:99!
<snip>
Internal error: Oops – BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
pc : dql_completed+0x238/0x248
lr : dql_completed+0x3c/0x248

Call trace:
dql_completed+0x238/0x248
axienet_dma_tx_cb+0xa0/0x170
xilinx_dma_do_tasklet+0xdc/0x290
tasklet_action_common+0xf8/0x11c
tasklet_action+0x30/0x3c
handle_softirqs+0xf8/0x230
<snip>

Start dmaengine after enqueue in dql fixes the crash.

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