VYPR
Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 30, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

e1000e: change usleep_range to udelay in PHY mdic access

CVE-2024-36887

Description

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

e1000e: change usleep_range to udelay in PHY mdic access

This is a partial revert of commit 6dbdd4de0362 ("e1000e: Workaround for sporadic MDI error on Meteor Lake systems"). The referenced commit used usleep_range inside the PHY access routines, which are sometimes called from an atomic context. This can lead to a kernel panic in some scenarios, such as cable disconnection and reconnection on vPro systems.

Solve this by changing the usleep_range calls back to udelay.

Affected products

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Patches

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