# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-38553"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-06-19T13:35:24.743Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:18:54.508Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-38553"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-38553.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38553"
title: "net: fec: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: fec: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks\n\nThere is a deadlock issue found in sungem driver, please refer to the\ncommit ac0a230f719b (\"eth: sungem: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid\ndeadlocks\"). The root cause of the issue is that netpoll is in atomic\ncontext and disable_irq() is called by .ndo_poll_controller interface\nof sungem driver, however, disable_irq() might sleep. After analyzing\nthe implementation of fec_poll_controller(), the fec driver should have\nthe same issue. Due to the fec driver uses NAPI for TX completions, the\n.ndo_poll_controller is unnecessary to be implemented in the fec driver,\nso fec_poll_controller() can be safely removed."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7f5c6addcdc039c1a7c435857e6284ecac5d97c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2348d8c61d03feece1de4c05f72e6e99f74c650"},{"version":"7f5c6addcdc039c1a7c435857e6284ecac5d97c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d38625f71950e79e254515c5fc585552dad4b33e"},{"version":"7f5c6addcdc039c1a7c435857e6284ecac5d97c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"accdd6b912c4219b8e056d1f1ad2e85bc66ee243"},{"version":"7f5c6addcdc039c1a7c435857e6284ecac5d97c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87bcbc9b7e0b43a69d44efa5f32f11e32d08fa6f"},{"version":"7f5c6addcdc039c1a7c435857e6284ecac5d97c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2e0c58b25a0a0c37ec643255558c5af4450c9f5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.2"},{"version":"6.1.119","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.8.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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