CVE-2024-56618 pmdomain: imx: gpcv2: Adjust delay after power up handshake
Insufficient delay in i.MX GPCv2 power-up handshake causes kernel panic, leading to denial of service on affected systems.
- 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
What is CVE-2024-56618?
CVE-2024-56618 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Dec 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:
pmdomain: imx: gpcv2: Adjust delay after power up handshake
The udelay(5) is not enough, sometimes below kernel panic still be triggered:
[ 4.012973] Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt [ 4.012976] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 186 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2-0.0.0-devel-00004-g8b1b79e88956 #1 [ 4.012982] Hardware name: Toradex Verdin iMX8M Plus WB on Dahlia Board (DT) [ 4.012985] Call trace: [...] [ 4.013029] arm64_serror_panic+0x64/0x70 [ 4.013034] do_serror+0x3c/0x70 [ 4.013039] el1h_64_error_handler+0x30/0x54 [ 4.013046] el1h_64_error+0x64/0x68 [ 4.013050] clk_imx8mp_audiomix_runtime_resume+0x38/0x48 [ 4.013059] __genpd_runtime_resume+0x30/0x80 [ 4.013066] genpd_runtime_resume+0x114/0x29c [ 4.013073] __rpm_callback+0x48/0x1e0 [ 4.013079] rpm_callback+0x68/0x80 [ 4.013084] rpm_resume+0x3bc/0x6a0 [ 4.013089] __pm_runtime_resume+0x50/0x9c [ 4.013095] pm_runtime_get_suppliers+0x60/0x8c [ 4.013101] __driver_probe_device+0x4c/0x14c [ 4.013108] driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x120 [ 4.013114] __driver_attach+0xc4/0x200 [ 4.013119] bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xe0 [ 4.013125] driver_attach+0x24/0x30 [ 4.013130] bus_add_driver+0x110/0x240 [ 4.013135] driver_register+0x68/0x124 [ 4.013142] __platform_driver_register+0x24/0x30 [ 4.013149] sdma_driver_init+0x20/0x1000 [imx_sdma] [ 4.013163] do_one_initcall+0x60/0x1e0 [ 4.013168] do_init_module+0x5c/0x21c [ 4.013175] load_module+0x1a98/0x205c [ 4.013181] init_module_from_file+0x88/0xd4 [ 4.013187] __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x258/0x350 [ 4.013194] invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x50/0xe0 [ 4.013202] do_el0_svc+0xa8/0xe0 [ 4.013208] el0_svc+0x3c/0x140 [ 4.013215] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c [ 4.013222] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [ 4.013228] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
The correct way is to wait handshake, but it needs BUS clock of BLK-CTL be enabled, which is in separate driver. So delay is the only option here. The udelay(10) is a data got by experiment.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56618?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-56618?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-56618 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56618 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-56618, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56618, GHSA-8fcf-qpcm-frcf, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56618.