CVE-2024-43866 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mlx5: Always drain health in shutdown callback

There is no point in recovery during device shutdown. if health work started need to wait for it to avoid races and NULL pointer access.

Hence drain health WQ on shutdown callback.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b6c2ebd83f2bf97e8f221479372aaca97a4a9b2 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6048dec754554a1303d632be6042d3feb3295285 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b75da22ed1e6171e261bc9265370162553d5393