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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-56568"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-27T14:23:11.733Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:54:57.262Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
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-2024-56568"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56568.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56568"
title: "iommu/arm-smmu: Defer probe of clients after smmu device bound"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/arm-smmu: Defer probe of clients after smmu device bound\n\nNull pointer dereference occurs due to a race between smmu\ndriver probe and client driver probe, when of_dma_configure()\nfor client is called after the iommu_device_register() for smmu driver\nprobe has executed but before the driver_bound() for smmu driver\nhas been called.\n\nFollowing is how the race occurs:\n\nT1:Smmu device probe\t\tT2: Client device probe\n\nreally_probe()\narm_smmu_device_probe()\niommu_device_register()\n\t\t\t\t\treally_probe()\n\t\t\t\t\tplatform_dma_configure()\n\t\t\t\t\tof_dma_configure()\n\t\t\t\t\tof_dma_configure_id()\n\t\t\t\t\tof_iommu_configure()\n\t\t\t\t\tiommu_probe_device()\n\t\t\t\t\tiommu_init_device()\n\t\t\t\t\tarm_smmu_probe_device()\n\t\t\t\t\tarm_smmu_get_by_fwnode()\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdriver_find_device_by_fwnode()\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdriver_find_device()\n\t\t\t\t\t\tnext_device()\n\t\t\t\t\t\tklist_next()\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    /* null ptr\n\t\t\t\t\t\t       assigned to smmu */\n\t\t\t\t\t/* null ptr dereference\n\t\t\t\t\t   while smmu-\u003estreamid_mask */\ndriver_bound()\n\tklist_add_tail()\n\nWhen this null smmu pointer is dereferenced later in\narm_smmu_probe_device, the device crashes.\n\nFix this by deferring the probe of the client device\nuntil the smmu device has bound to the arm smmu driver.\n\n[will: Add comment]"
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