In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial/pmac_zilog: Remove flawed mitigation for rx irq flood
The mitigation was intended to stop the irq completely. That may be
better than a hard lock-up but it turns out that you get a crash anyway
if you're using pmac_zilog as a serial console:
ttyPZ0: pmz: rx irq flood !
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, swapper/0
That's because the pr_err() call in pmz_receive_chars() results in
pmz_console_write() attempting to lock a spinlock already locked in
pmz_interrupt(). With CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y, this produces a fatal
BUG splat. The spinlock in question is the one in struct uart_port.
Even when it's not fatal, the serial port rx function ceases to work.
Also, the iteration limit doesn't play nicely with QEMU, as can be
seen in the bug report linked below.
A web search for other reports of the error message "pmz: rx irq flood"
didn't produce anything. So I don't think this code is needed any more.
Remove it.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2024-05-01T05:28:30.760Z
Updated: 2025-05-04T09:01:50.540Z
Reserved: 2024-02-19T14:20:24.206Z
Link: CVE-2024-26999

Updated: 2024-08-02T00:21:05.871Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2024-05-01T06:15:17.870
Modified: 2024-11-21T09:03:35.323
Link: CVE-2024-26999
