← CVE Intelligence

CVE-2021-46920

dmaengine: idxd: Fix clobbering of SWERR overflow bit on writeback PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: Fix clobbering of SWERR overflow bit on writeback Current code blindly writes over the SWERR and the OVERFLOW bits. Write back the bits actually read instead so the driver avoids clobbering the OVERFLOW bit that comes after the register is read.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected bfe1d56091c1a404b3d4ce7e9809d745fc4453bb before a5ad12d5d69c63af289a37f05187a0c6fe93553d; affected bfe1d56091c1a404b3d4ce7e9809d745fc4453bb before 02981a44a0e402089775416371bd2e0c935685f8; affected bfe1d56091c1a404b3d4ce7e9809d745fc4453bb before ea941ac294d75d0ace50797aebf0056f6f8f7a7f
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.6; unaffected 0 before 5.6; unaffected 5.10.32 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.11.16 through 5.11.*; unaffected 5.12 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.

CVE

No English description supplied.