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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 12, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

USB: class: cdc-wdm: Fix CPU lockup caused by excessive log messages

CVE-2024-40904

Description

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

USB: class: cdc-wdm: Fix CPU lockup caused by excessive log messages

The syzbot fuzzer found that the interrupt-URB completion callback in the cdc-wdm driver was taking too long, and the driver's immediate resubmission of interrupt URBs with -EPROTO status combined with the dummy-hcd emulation to cause a CPU lockup:

cdc_wdm 1-1:1.0: nonzero urb status received: -71 cdc_wdm 1-1:1.0: wdm_int_callback - 0 bytes watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 26s! [syz-executor782:6625] CPU#0 Utilization every 4s during lockup: #1: 98% system, 0% softirq, 3% hardirq, 0% idle #2: 98% system, 0% softirq, 3% hardirq, 0% idle #3: 98% system, 0% softirq, 3% hardirq, 0% idle #4: 98% system, 0% softirq, 3% hardirq, 0% idle #5: 98% system, 1% softirq, 3% hardirq, 0% idle Modules linked in: irq event stamp: 73096 hardirqs last enabled at (73095): [] console_emit_next_record kernel/printk/printk.c:2935 [inline] hardirqs last enabled at (73095): [] console_flush_all+0x650/0xb74 kernel/printk/printk.c:2994 hardirqs last disabled at (73096): [] __el1_irq arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:533 [inline] hardirqs last disabled at (73096): [] el1_interrupt+0x24/0x68 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:551 softirqs last enabled at (73048): [] softirq_handle_end kernel/softirq.c:400 [inline] softirqs last enabled at (73048): [] handle_softirqs+0xa60/0xc34 kernel/softirq.c:582 softirqs last disabled at (73043): [] __do_softirq+0x14/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:588 CPU: 0 PID: 6625 Comm: syz-executor782 Tainted: G W 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-g8867bbd4a056 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024

Testing showed that the problem did not occur if the two error messages -- the first two lines above -- were removed; apparently adding material to the kernel log takes a surprisingly large amount of time.

In any case, the best approach for preventing these lockups and to avoid spamming the log with thousands of error messages per second is to ratelimit the two dev_err() calls. Therefore we replace them with dev_err_ratelimited().

Affected products

184

Patches

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22f008128625
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.gitvia osv
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02a4c0499fc3
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.gitvia osv
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53250b54c92f
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.gitvia osv
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c0747d76eb05
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.gitvia osv
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05b2cd6d33f7
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.gitvia osv
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217d1f44fff5
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.gitvia osv
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82075aff7ffc
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.gitvia osv
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72a3fe36cf9f
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.gitvia osv
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Vulnerability mechanics

Generated on May 9, 2026. Inputs: CWE entries + fix-commit diffs from this CVE's patches. Citations validated against bundle.

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