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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-47744" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T12:14:11.830Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:39:55.140Z" 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-2024-47744" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-47744.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47744" title: "KVM: Use dedicated mutex to protect kvm_usage_count to avoid deadlock" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: Use dedicated mutex to protect kvm_usage_count to avoid deadlock\n\nUse a dedicated mutex to guard kvm_usage_count to fix a potential deadlock\non x86 due to a chain of locks and SRCU synchronizations. Translating the\nbelow lockdep splat, CPU1 #6 will wait on CPU0 #1, CPU0 #8 will wait on\nCPU2 #3, and CPU2 #7 will wait on CPU1 #4 (if there's a writer, due to the\nfairness of r/w semaphores).\n\n CPU0 CPU1 CPU2\n1 lock(&kvm-\u003eslots_lock);\n2 lock(&vcpu-\u003emutex);\n3 lock(&kvm-\u003esrcu);\n4 lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);\n5 lock(kvm_lock);\n6 lock(&kvm-\u003eslots_lock);\n7 lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);\n8 sync(&kvm-\u003esrcu);\n\nNote, there are likely more potential deadlocks in KVM x86, e.g. the same\npattern of taking cpu_hotplug_lock outside of kvm_lock likely exists with\n__kvmclock_cpufreq_notifier():\n\n cpuhp_cpufreq_online()\n |\n -\u003e cpufreq_online()\n |\n -\u003e cpufreq_gov_performance_limits()\n |\n -\u003e __cpufreq_driver_target()\n |\n -\u003e __target_index()\n |\n -\u003e cpufreq_freq_transition_begin()\n |\n -\u003e cpufreq_notify_transition()\n |\n -\u003e ... __kvmclock_cpufreq_notifier()\n\nBut, actually triggering such deadlocks is beyond rare due to the\ncombination of dependencies and timings involved. E.g. the cpufreq\nnotifier is only used on older CPUs without a constant TSC, mucking with\nthe NX hugepage mitigation while VMs are running is very uncommon, and\ndoing so while also onlining/offlining a CPU (necessary to generate\ncontention on cpu_hotplug_lock) would be even more unusual.\n\nThe most robust solution to the general cpu_hotplug_lock issue is likely\nto switch vm_list to be an RCU-protected list, e.g. so that x86's cpufreq\nnotifier doesn't to take kvm_lock. For now, settle for fixing the most\nblatant deadlock, as switching to an RCU-protected list is a much more\ninvolved change, but add a comment in locking.rst to call out that care\nneeds to be taken when walking holding kvm_lock and walking vm_list.\n\n ======================================================\n WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected\n 6.10.0-smp--c257535a0c9d-pip #330 Tainted: G S O\n ------------------------------------------------------\n tee/35048 is trying to acquire lock:\n ff6a80eced71e0a8 (&kvm-\u003eslots_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: set_nx_huge_pages+0x179/0x1e0 [kvm]\n\n but task is already holding lock:\n ffffffffc07abb08 (kvm_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: set_nx_huge_pages+0x14a/0x1e0 [kvm]\n\n which lock already depends on the new lock.\n\n the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:\n\n -\u003e #3 (kvm_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}:\n __mutex_lock+0x6a/0xb40\n mutex_lock_nested+0x1f/0x30\n kvm_dev_ioctl+0x4fb/0xe50 [kvm]\n __se_sys_ioctl+0x7b/0xd0\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x21/0x30\n x64_sys_call+0x15d0/0x2e60\n do_syscall_64+0x83/0x160\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\n -\u003e #2 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}:\n cpus_read_lock+0x2e/0xb0\n static_key_slow_inc+0x16/0x30\n kvm_lapic_set_base+0x6a/0x1c0 [kvm]\n kvm_set_apic_base+0x8f/0xe0 [kvm]\n kvm_set_msr_common+0x9ae/0xf80 [kvm]\n vmx_set_msr+0xa54/0xbe0 [kvm_intel]\n __kvm_set_msr+0xb6/0x1a0 [kvm]\n kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0xeca/0x10c0 [kvm]\n kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x485/0x5b0 [kvm]\n __se_sys_ioctl+0x7b/0xd0\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x21/0x30\n x64_sys_call+0x15d0/0x2e60\n do_syscall_64+0x83/0x160\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\n -\u003e #1 (&kvm-\u003esrcu){.+.+}-{0:0}:\n __synchronize_srcu+0x44/0x1a0\n \n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0bf50497f03b3d892c470c7d1a10a3e9c3c95821","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4777225ec89f52bb9ca16a33cfb44c189f1b7b47"},{"version":"0bf50497f03b3d892c470c7d1a10a3e9c3c95821","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2764afce521fd9fd7a5ff6ed52ac2095873128a"},{"version":"0bf50497f03b3d892c470c7d1a10a3e9c3c95821","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"760a196e6dcb29580e468b44b5400171dae184d8"},{"version":"0bf50497f03b3d892c470c7d1a10a3e9c3c95821","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44d17459626052a2390457e550a12cb973506b2f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"6.6.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","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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