Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 4, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-44957
CVE-2024-44957
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xen: privcmd: Switch from mutex to spinlock for irqfds
irqfd_wakeup() gets EPOLLHUP, when it is called by eventfd_release() by way of wake_up_poll(&ctx->wqh, EPOLLHUP), which gets called under spin_lock_irqsave(). We can't use a mutex here as it will lead to a deadlock.
Fix it by switching over to a spin lock.
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