CVE-2023-52484: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Fix soft lockup triggered by arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range When running…

PriorityP421medium5.5CVSS 3.1

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EPSS

0.17%

7.0th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Fix soft lockup triggered by arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range When running an SVA case, the following soft lockup is triggered: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#244 stuck for 26s! pstate: 83400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x178/0xa50 lr : arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x150/0xa50 sp : ffff8000d83ef290 x29: ffff8000d83ef290 x28: 000000003b9aca00 x27: 0000000000000000 x26: ffff8000d83ef3c0 x25: da86c0812194a0e8 x24: 0000000000000000 x23: 0000000000000040 x22: ffff8000d83ef340 x21: ffff0000c63980c0 x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff0000c6398080 x18: 0000000000000000 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff3000b4a3bbb0 x14: ffff3000b4a30888 x13: ffff3000b4a3cf60 x12: 0000000000000000 x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffc08120e4d6bc x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000048cfa x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 000000000000000a x2 : 0000000080000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000001 Call trace: arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x178/0xa50 __arm_smmu_tlb_inv_range+0x118/0x254 arm_smmu_tlb_inv_range_asid+0x6c/0x130 arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range+0xa0/0xa4 __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end+0x88/0x120 unmap_vmas+0x194/0x1e0 unmap_region+0xb4/0x144 do_mas_align_munmap+0x290/0x490 do_mas_munmap+0xbc/0x124 __vm_munmap+0xa8/0x19c __arm64_sys_munmap+0x28/0x50 invoke_syscall+0x78/0x11c el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x58/0x1c0 do_el0_svc+0x34/0x60 el0_svc+0x2c/0xd4 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x114/0x140 el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8 Note that since 6.6-rc1 the arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range above is renamed to "arm_smmu_mm_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs", yet the problem remains. The commit 06ff87bae8d3 ("arm64: mm: remove unused functions and variable protoypes") fixed a similar lockup on the CPU MMU side. Yet, it can occur to SMMU too, since arm_smmu_mm_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs() is cal

Affected

13 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	linux	< linux 6.1.64-1 (bookworm)	linux 6.1.64-1 (bookworm)
linux	linux	—	—
linux	linux	>= 51d113c3be09ff5b916576b1109daf413549cacc < f5a604757aa8e37ea9c7011dc9da54fa1b30f29b	f5a604757aa8e37ea9c7011dc9da54fa1b30f29b
linux	linux	>= 51d113c3be09ff5b916576b1109daf413549cacc < f90f4c562003ac3d3b135c5a40a5383313f27264	f90f4c562003ac3d3b135c5a40a5383313f27264
linux	linux	>= 51d113c3be09ff5b916576b1109daf413549cacc < 3283a1bce9bbc978059f790b84f3c10c32492429	3283a1bce9bbc978059f790b84f3c10c32492429
linux	linux	>= 51d113c3be09ff5b916576b1109daf413549cacc < d5afb4b47e13161b3f33904d45110f9e6463bad6	d5afb4b47e13161b3f33904d45110f9e6463bad6
linux	linux_kernel	< 5.15.134	5.15.134
linux	linux_kernel	—	—
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.1.64-1	6.1.64-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.5.6-1	6.5.6-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.5.6-1	6.5.6-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 5.16 < 6.1.56	6.1.56
linux	linux_kernel	>= 6.2 < 6.5.6	6.5.6

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv5.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM

vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM

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