Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 12, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-40963
CVE-2024-40963
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mips: bmips: BCM6358: make sure CBR is correctly set
It was discovered that some device have CBR address set to 0 causing kernel panic when arch_sync_dma_for_cpu_all is called.
This was notice in situation where the system is booted from TP1 and BMIPS_GET_CBR() returns 0 instead of a valid address and !!(read_c0_brcm_cmt_local() & (1 << 31)); not failing.
The current check whether RAC flush should be disabled or not are not enough hence lets check if CBR is a valid address or not.
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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/10afe5f7d30f6fe50c2b1177549d0e04921fc373nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cd4854ef14a487bcfb76c7980675980cad27b52nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/36d771ce6028b886e18a4a8956a5d23688e4e13dnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c0f6ccd939166f56a904c792d7fcadae43b9085nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/89167072fd249e5f23ae2f8093f87da5925cef27nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce5cdd3b05216b704a704f466fb4c2dff3778cafnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/da895fd6da438af8d9326b8f02d715a9c76c3b5bnvdPatch
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.htmlnvd
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