CVE-2024-57949

Summary

CVE-2024-57949: A vulnerability was discovered in the Linux kernel's irqchip/gic-v3-its component. The issue arises from enabling interrupts within a nested interrupt-disabled section in the function its_irq_set_vcpu_affinity(). This occurred due to a change made in commit b97e8a2f7130, which replaced the original raw_spin_[un]lock() pair with guard(raw_spinlock_irq). To address this issue, use guard(raw_spinlock) instead.

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