5.5

CVE-2024-57889

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

pinctrl: mcp23s08: Fix sleeping in atomic context due to regmap locking

If a device uses MCP23xxx IO expander to receive IRQs, the following
bug can happen:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
    at kernel/locking/mutex.c:283
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, ...
  preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
  ...
  Call Trace:
  ...
  __might_resched+0x104/0x10e
  __might_sleep+0x3e/0x62
  mutex_lock+0x20/0x4c
  regmap_lock_mutex+0x10/0x18
  regmap_update_bits_base+0x2c/0x66
  mcp23s08_irq_set_type+0x1ae/0x1d6
  __irq_set_trigger+0x56/0x172
  __setup_irq+0x1e6/0x646
  request_threaded_irq+0xb6/0x160
  ...

We observed the problem while experimenting with a touchscreen driver which
used MCP23017 IO expander (I2C).

The regmap in the pinctrl-mcp23s08 driver uses a mutex for protection from
concurrent accesses, which is the default for regmaps without .fast_io,
.disable_locking, etc.

mcp23s08_irq_set_type() calls regmap_update_bits_base(), and the latter
locks the mutex.

However, __setup_irq() locks desc->lock spinlock before calling these
functions. As a result, the system tries to lock the mutex whole holding
the spinlock.

It seems, the internal regmap locks are not needed in this driver at all.
mcp->lock seems to protect the regmap from concurrent accesses already,
except, probably, in mcp_pinconf_get/set.

mcp23s08_irq_set_type() and mcp23s08_irq_mask/unmask() are called under
chip_bus_lock(), which calls mcp23s08_irq_bus_lock(). The latter takes
mcp->lock and enables regmap caching, so that the potentially slow I2C
accesses are deferred until chip_bus_unlock().

The accesses to the regmap from mcp23s08_probe_one() do not need additional
locking.

In all remaining places where the regmap is accessed, except
mcp_pinconf_get/set(), the driver already takes mcp->lock.

This patch adds locking in mcp_pinconf_get/set() and disables internal
locking in the regmap config. Among other things, it fixes the sleeping
in atomic context described above.
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.13 < 5.4.289
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.233
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.176
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.124
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.70
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.9
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc3
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.13 Updaterc5
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.03% 0.061
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-667 Improper Locking

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.