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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-46797" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-09-18T07:12:51.795Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:36:43.772Z" 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-2024-46797" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-46797.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-46797" title: "powerpc/qspinlock: Fix deadlock in MCS queue" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/qspinlock: Fix deadlock in MCS queue\n\nIf an interrupt occurs in queued_spin_lock_slowpath() after we increment\nqnodesp-\u003ecount and before node-\u003elock is initialized, another CPU might\nsee stale lock values in get_tail_qnode(). If the stale lock value happens\nto match the lock on that CPU, then we write to the \"next\" pointer of\nthe wrong qnode. This causes a deadlock as the former CPU, once it becomes\nthe head of the MCS queue, will spin indefinitely until it's \"next\" pointer\nis set by its successor in the queue.\n\nRunning stress-ng on a 16 core (16EC/16VP) shared LPAR, results in\noccasional lockups similar to the following:\n\n $ stress-ng --all 128 --vm-bytes 80% --aggressive \\\n --maximize --oomable --verify --syslog \\\n --metrics --times --timeout 5m\n\n watchdog: CPU 15 Hard LOCKUP\n ......\n NIP [c0000000000b78f4] queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x1184/0x1490\n LR [c000000001037c5c] _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90\n Call Trace:\n 0xc000002cfffa3bf0 (unreliable)\n _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90\n raw_spin_rq_lock_nested.part.135+0x4c/0xd0\n sched_ttwu_pending+0x60/0x1f0\n __flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x1dc/0x670\n smp_ipi_demux_relaxed+0xa4/0x100\n xive_muxed_ipi_action+0x20/0x40\n __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x80/0x240\n handle_irq_event_percpu+0x2c/0x80\n handle_percpu_irq+0x84/0xd0\n generic_handle_irq+0x54/0x80\n __do_irq+0xac/0x210\n __do_IRQ+0x74/0xd0\n 0x0\n do_IRQ+0x8c/0x170\n hardware_interrupt_common_virt+0x29c/0x2a0\n --- interrupt: 500 at queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x4b8/0x1490\n ......\n NIP [c0000000000b6c28] queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x4b8/0x1490\n LR [c000000001037c5c] _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90\n --- interrupt: 500\n 0xc0000029c1a41d00 (unreliable)\n _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x90\n futex_wake+0x100/0x260\n do_futex+0x21c/0x2a0\n sys_futex+0x98/0x270\n system_call_exception+0x14c/0x2f0\n system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec\n\nThe following code flow illustrates how the deadlock occurs.\nFor the sake of brevity, assume that both locks (A and B) are\ncontended and we call the queued_spin_lock_slowpath() function.\n\n CPU0 CPU1\n ---- ----\n spin_lock_irqsave(A) |\n spin_unlock_irqrestore(A) |\n spin_lock(B) |\n | |\n ▼ |\n id = qnodesp-\u003ecount++; |\n (Note that nodes[0].lock == A) |\n | |\n ▼ |\n Interrupt |\n (happens before \"nodes[0].lock = B\") |\n | |\n ▼ |\n spin_lock_irqsave(A) |\n | |\n ▼ |\n id = qnodesp-\u003ecount++ |\n nodes[1].lock = A |\n | |\n ▼ |\n Tail of MCS queue |\n | spin_lock_irqsave(A)\n ▼ |\n Head of MCS queue ▼\n | CPU0 is previous tail\n ▼ |\n Spin indefinitely ▼\n (until \"nodes[1].next != NULL\") prev = get_tail_qnode(A, CPU0)\n |\n ▼\n prev == &qnodes[CPU0].nodes[0]\n (as qnodes\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"84990b169557428c318df87b7836cd15f65b62dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d84ab6661e8d09092de9b034b016515ef9b66085"},{"version":"84990b169557428c318df87b7836cd15f65b62dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f06af737e4be28c0e926dc25d5f0a111da4e2987"},{"version":"84990b169557428c318df87b7836cd15f65b62dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"734ad0af3609464f8f93e00b6c0de1e112f44559"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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