e1000e: change usleep_range to udelay in PHY mdic access
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: e1000e: change usleep_range to udelay in PHY mdic access This is a partial revert of commit 6dbdd4de0362 ("e1000e: Workaround for sporadic MDI error on Meteor Lake systems"). The referenced commit used usleep_range inside the PHY access routines, which are sometimes called from an atomic context. This can lead to a kernel panic in some scenarios, such as cable disconnection and reconnection on vPro systems. Solve this by changing the usleep_range calls back to udelay.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
10 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: e1000e: change usleep_range to udelay in PHY mdic access This is a partial revert of commit 6dbdd4de0362 ("e1000e: Workaround for sporadic MDI error on Meteor Lake systems"). The referenced commit used usleep_range inside the PHY access routines, which are sometimes called from an atomic context. This can lead to a kernel panic in some scenarios, such as cable disconnection and reconnection on vPro systems. Solve this by changing the usleep_range calls back to udelay.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/387f295cb2150ed164905b648d76dfcbd3621778
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/950d5226cd6bb83ba720961a8d4d5cf79e6afd57
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8a139656c95db893a543159873c57a470d7376d
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/36xxx/CVE-2024-36887.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36887