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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 8, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

virtio_pmem: Check device status before requesting flush

CVE-2024-50184

Description

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

virtio_pmem: Check device status before requesting flush

If a pmem device is in a bad status, the driver side could wait for host ack forever in virtio_pmem_flush(), causing the system to hang.

So add a status check in the beginning of virtio_pmem_flush() to return early if the device is not activated.

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