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      <title>CVE-2024-38385 — genirq/irqdesc: Prevent use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after()</title>
      <link>https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-38385</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;genirq/irqdesc: Prevent use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;irq_find_at_or_after() dereferences the interrupt descriptor which is
returned by mt_find() while neither holding sparse_irq_lock nor RCU read
lock, which means the descriptor can be freed between mt_find() and the
dereference:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CPU0                            CPU1
    desc = mt_find()
                                    delayed_free_desc(desc)
    irq_desc_get_irq(desc)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The use-after-free is reported by KASAN:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call trace:
     irq_get_next_irq+0x58/0x84
     show_stat+0x638/0x824
     seq_read_iter+0x158/0x4ec
     proc_reg_read_iter+0x94/0x12c
     vfs_read+0x1e0/0x2c8&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Freed by task 4471:
     slab_free_freelist_hook+0x174/0x1e0
     __kmem_cache_free+0xa4/0x1dc
     kfree+0x64/0x128
     irq_kobj_release+0x28/0x3c
     kobject_put+0xcc/0x1e0
     delayed_free_desc+0x14/0x2c
     rcu_do_batch+0x214/0x720&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guard the access with a RCU read lock section.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;genirq/irqdesc: Prevent use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;irq_find_at_or_after() dereferences the interrupt descriptor which is
returned by mt_find() while neither holding sparse_irq_lock nor RCU read
lock, which means the descriptor can be freed between mt_find() and the
dereference:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CPU0                            CPU1
    desc = mt_find()
                                    delayed_free_desc(desc)
    irq_desc_get_irq(desc)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The use-after-free is reported by KASAN:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call trace:
     irq_get_next_irq+0x58/0x84
     show_stat+0x638/0x824
     seq_read_iter+0x158/0x4ec
     proc_reg_read_iter+0x94/0x12c
     vfs_read+0x1e0/0x2c8&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Freed by task 4471:
     slab_free_freelist_hook+0x174/0x1e0
     __kmem_cache_free+0xa4/0x1dc
     kfree+0x64/0x128
     irq_kobj_release+0x28/0x3c
     kobject_put+0xcc/0x1e0
     delayed_free_desc+0x14/0x2c
     rcu_do_batch+0x214/0x720&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guard the access with a RCU read lock section.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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