# CVE-2024-43851: soc: xilinx: rename cpu_number1 to dummy_cpu_number

> A bug in the Xilinx SoC driver causes a kernel crash when sleeping functions are called in atomic context, 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:** 17 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 23 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-43851, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43851, GHSA-fv6p-j83c-r5q7, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-43851

## What is CVE-2024-43851?

CVE-2024-43851 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:

soc: xilinx: rename cpu_number1 to dummy_cpu_number

The per cpu variable cpu_number1 is passed to xlnx_event_handler as
argument "dev_id", but it is not used in this function. So drop the
initialization of this variable and rename it to dummy_cpu_number.
This patch is to fix the following call trace when the kernel option
CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP is enabled:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:274
    in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
    preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
    CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.1.0 #53
    Hardware name: Xilinx Versal vmk180 Eval board rev1.1 (QSPI) (DT)
    Call trace:
     dump_backtrace+0xd0/0xe0
     show_stack+0x18/0x40
     dump_stack_lvl+0x7c/0xa0
     dump_stack+0x18/0x34
     __might_resched+0x10c/0x140
     __might_sleep+0x4c/0xa0
     __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xf4/0x168
     kmalloc_trace+0x28/0x38
     __request_percpu_irq+0x74/0x138
     xlnx_event_manager_probe+0xf8/0x298
     platform_probe+0x68/0xd8

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-43851?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-43851?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-43851 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-43851 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-43851 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-43851 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-2024-43851 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-2024-43851/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43851/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43851
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43851
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43851

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.