CVE-2024-46761 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pci/hotplug/pnv_php: Fix hotplug driver crash on Powernv

The hotplug driver for powerpc (pci/hotplug/pnv_php.c) causes a kernel crash when we try to hot-unplug/disable the PCIe switch/bridge from the PHB.

The crash occurs because although the MSI data structure has been released during disable/hot-unplug path and it has been assigned with NULL still during unregistration the code was again trying to explicitly disable the MSI which causes the NULL pointer dereference and kernel crash.

The patch fixes the check during unregistration path to prevent invoking pci_disable_msi/msix() since its data structure is already freed.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4eb4085c1346d19d4a05c55246eb93e74e671048 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4c681999d385e28f84808bbf3a85ea8e982da55 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc1faed19db95abf0933b104910a3fb01b138f59 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0d8094dc740cfacf3775bbc6a1c4720459e8de4 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/438d522227374042b5c8798f8ce83bbe479dca4d https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b82d4d5c736f4fd2ed224c35f554f50d1953d21e https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfc44075b19740d372f989f21dd03168bfda0689 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/335e35b748527f0c06ded9eebb65387f60647fda