Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 30, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-42140
CVE-2024-42140
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: kexec: Avoid deadlock in kexec crash path
If the kexec crash code is called in the interrupt context, the machine_kexec_mask_interrupts() function will trigger a deadlock while trying to acquire the irqdesc spinlock and then deactivate irqchip in irq_set_irqchip_state() function.
Unlike arm64, riscv only requires irq_eoi handler to complete EOI and keeping irq_set_irqchip_state() will only leave this possible deadlock without any use. So we simply remove it.
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References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/484dd545271d02d1571e1c6b62ea7df9dbe5e692nvdMailing ListPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/653deee48a4682ea17a05b96fb6842795ab5943cnvdMailing ListPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7692c9b6baacdee378435f58f19baf0eb69e4155nvdMailing ListPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb80a7911218bbab2a69b5db7d2545643ab0073dnvdMailing ListPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c562ba719df570c986caf0941fea2449150bcbc4nvdMailing ListPatch
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.htmlnvd
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