# CVE-2024-42290: irqchip/imx-irqsteer: Handle runtime power management correctly

> A bug in the i.MX irqsteer driver causes a kernel crash during device probing on specific platforms, leading to a 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:** 17 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-42290, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42290, GHSA-h8vf-5858-qv45, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42290

## What is CVE-2024-42290?

CVE-2024-42290 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Aug 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:

irqchip/imx-irqsteer: Handle runtime power management correctly

The power domain is automatically activated from clk_prepare(). However, on
certain platforms like i.MX8QM and i.MX8QXP, the power-on handling invokes
sleeping functions, which triggers the 'scheduling while atomic' bug in the
context switch path during device probing:

 BUG: scheduling while atomic: kworker/u13:1/48/0x00000002
 Call trace:
  __schedule_bug+0x54/0x6c
  __schedule+0x7f0/0xa94
  schedule+0x5c/0xc4
  schedule_preempt_disabled+0x24/0x40
  __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x2c0/0x540
  __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x14/0x20
  mutex_lock+0x48/0x54
  clk_prepare_lock+0x44/0xa0
  clk_prepare+0x20/0x44
  imx_irqsteer_resume+0x28/0xe0
  pm_generic_runtime_resume+0x2c/0x44
  __genpd_runtime_resume+0x30/0x80
  genpd_runtime_resume+0xc8/0x2c0
  __rpm_callback+0x48/0x1d8
  rpm_callback+0x6c/0x78
  rpm_resume+0x490/0x6b4
  __pm_runtime_resume+0x50/0x94
  irq_chip_pm_get+0x2c/0xa0
  __irq_do_set_handler+0x178/0x24c
  irq_set_chained_handler_and_data+0x60/0xa4
  mxc_gpio_probe+0x160/0x4b0

Cure this by implementing the irq_bus_lock/sync_unlock() interrupt chip
callbacks and handle power management in them as they are invoked from
non-atomic context.

[ tglx: Rewrote change log, added Fixes tag ]

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-42290?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-42290?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-42290 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42290 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-42290 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-42290 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Aug 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-2024-42290 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-2024-42290/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42290/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42290
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42290
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-42290

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