CVE-2024-26690

Technical Description

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

net: stmmac: protect updates of 64-bit statistics counters

As explained by a comment in <linux/u64_stats_sync.h>, write side of struct

u64_stats_sync must ensure mutual exclusion, or one seqcount update could

be lost on 32-bit platforms, thus blocking readers forever. Such lockups

have been observed in real world after stmmac_xmit() on one CPU raced with

stmmac_napi_poll_tx() on another CPU.

To fix the issue without introducing a new lock, split the statics into

three parts:

1. fields updated only under the tx queue lock,

2. fields updated only during NAPI poll,

3. fields updated only from interrupt context,

Updates to fields in the first two groups are already serialized through

other locks. It is sufficient to split the existing struct u64_stats_sync

so that each group has its own.

Note that tx_set_ic_bit is updated from both contexts. Split this counter

so that each context gets its own, and calculate their su

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References