CVE-2021-47374 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dma-debug: prevent an error message from causing runtime problems

For some drivers that use the DMA API. This error message can be reached several millions of times per second causing spam to the kernel’s printk buffer and bringing the CPU usage up to 100% (so it should be rate limited). However since there is at least one driver that is in the mainline and suffers from the error condition it is more useful to err_printk() here instead of just rate limiting the error message (in hopes that it will make it easier for other drivers that suffer from this issue to be spotted).

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de4afec2d2946c92c62a15ab341c70b287289e6a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/510e1a724ab1bf38150be2c1acabb303f98d0047