# CVE-2024-40976: drm/lima: mask irqs in timeout path before hard reset

> A race condition in the Linux kernel's Lima GPU driver can cause a refcount imbalance and system warning, potentially leading to denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 12 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-40976, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40976, GHSA-8xmj-h9j2-77ww, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40976

## What is CVE-2024-40976?

CVE-2024-40976 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 12 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

drm/lima: mask irqs in timeout path before hard reset

There is a race condition in which a rendering job might take just long
enough to trigger the drm sched job timeout handler but also still
complete before the hard reset is done by the timeout handler.
This runs into race conditions not expected by the timeout handler.
In some very specific cases it currently may result in a refcount
imbalance on lima_pm_idle, with a stack dump such as:

[10136.669170] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_devfreq.c:205 lima_devfreq_record_idle+0xa0/0xb0
...
[10136.669459] pc : lima_devfreq_record_idle+0xa0/0xb0
...
[10136.669628] Call trace:
[10136.669634]  lima_devfreq_record_idle+0xa0/0xb0
[10136.669646]  lima_sched_pipe_task_done+0x5c/0xb0
[10136.669656]  lima_gp_irq_handler+0xa8/0x120
[10136.669666]  __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x48/0x160
[10136.669679]  handle_irq_event+0x4c/0xc0

We can prevent that race condition entirely by masking the irqs at the
beginning of the timeout handler, at which point we give up on waiting
for that job entirely.
The irqs will be enabled again at the next hard reset which is already
done as a recovery by the timeout handler.

Weakness: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-40976?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-40976?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-40976 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40976 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-40976 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-40976 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 12 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40976 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40976/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-40976/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40976
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40976
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-40976

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