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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-44976"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-09-04T19:54:28.282Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:33:03.774Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
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-2024-44976"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-44976.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-44976"
title: "ata: pata_macio: Fix DMA table overflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nata: pata_macio: Fix DMA table overflow\n\nKolbjørn and Jonáš reported that their 32-bit PowerMacs were crashing\nin pata-macio since commit 09fe2bfa6b83 (\"ata: pata_macio: Fix\nmax_segment_size with PAGE_SIZE == 64K\").\n\nFor example:\n\n  kernel BUG at drivers/ata/pata_macio.c:544!\n  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]\n  BE PAGE_SIZE=4K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PowerMac\n  ...\n  NIP pata_macio_qc_prep+0xf4/0x190\n  LR  pata_macio_qc_prep+0xfc/0x190\n  Call Trace:\n    0xc1421660 (unreliable)\n    ata_qc_issue+0x14c/0x2d4\n    __ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x200/0x53c\n    ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x50/0xe0\n    scsi_queue_rq+0x788/0xb1c\n    __blk_mq_issue_directly+0x58/0xf4\n    blk_mq_plug_issue_direct+0x8c/0x1b4\n    blk_mq_flush_plug_list.part.0+0x584/0x5e0\n    __blk_flush_plug+0xf8/0x194\n    __submit_bio+0x1b8/0x2e0\n    submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x230/0x304\n    btrfs_work_helper+0x200/0x338\n    process_one_work+0x1a8/0x338\n    worker_thread+0x364/0x4c0\n    kthread+0x100/0x104\n    start_kernel_thread+0x10/0x14\n\nThat commit increased max_segment_size to 64KB, with the justification\nthat the SCSI core was already using that size when PAGE_SIZE == 64KB,\nand that there was existing logic to split over-sized requests.\n\nHowever with a sufficiently large request, the splitting logic causes\neach sg to be split into two commands in the DMA table, leading to\noverflow of the DMA table, triggering the BUG_ON().\n\nWith default settings the bug doesn't trigger, because the request size\nis limited by max_sectors_kb == 1280, however max_sectors_kb can be\nincreased, and apparently some distros do that by default using udev\nrules.\n\nFix the bug for 4KB kernels by reverting to the old max_segment_size.\n\nFor 64KB kernels the sg_tablesize needs to be halved, to allow for the\npossibility that each sg will be split into two."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"09fe2bfa6b83f865126ce3964744863f69a4a030","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"709e4c8f78e156ab332297bdd87527ec3da4e2d4"},{"version":"09fe2bfa6b83f865126ce3964744863f69a4a030","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"822c8020aebcf5804a143b891e34f29873fee5e2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.10.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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