CVE-2024-36925

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: swiotlb: initialise restricted pool list_head when SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC=y Using restricted DMA pools (CONFIG_DMA_RESTRICTED_POOL=y) in conjunction with dynamic SWIOTLB (CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC=y) leads to the following crash when initialising the restricted pools at boot-time: | Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 | Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP | pc : rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xfc/0x1ec | lr : rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xf0/0x1ec | Call trace: | rmem_swiotlb_device_init+0xfc/0x1ec | of_reserved_mem_device_init_by_idx+0x18c/0x238 | of_dma_configure_id+0x31c/0x33c | platform_dma_configure+0x34/0x80 faddr2line reveals that the crash is in the list validation code: include/linux/list.h:83 include/linux/rculist.h:79 include/linux/rculist.h:106 kernel/dma/swiotlb.c:306 kernel/dma/swiotlb.c:1695 because add_mem_pool() is trying to list_add_rcu() to a NULL 'mem->pools'. Fix the crash by initialising the 'mem->pools' list_head in rmem_swiotlb_device_init() before calling add_mem_pool().

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-36925 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-36925.

URL	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75961ffb5cb3e5196f19cae7683f35cc88b50800
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2a6b3ed20f2dea4cb645abc6a73c4595662adca
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f62e0fefcdfe2c05ccb1aa80521a69524eea9c84
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024053040-CVE-2024-36925-4b72@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36925
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36925