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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngpio: pca953x: fix pca953x_irq_bus_sync_unlock race\n\nEnsure that `i2c_lock' is held when setting interrupt latch and mask in\npca953x_irq_bus_sync_unlock() in order to avoid races.\n\nThe other (non-probe) call site pca953x_gpio_set_multiple() ensures the\nlock is held before calling pca953x_write_regs().\n\nThe problem occurred when a request raced against irq_bus_sync_unlock()\napproximately once per thousand reboots on an i.MX8MP based system.\n\n * Normal case\n\n 0-0022: write register AI|3a {03,02,00,00,01} Input latch P0\n 0-0022: write register AI|49 {fc,fd,ff,ff,fe} Interrupt mask P0\n 0-0022: write register AI|08 {ff,00,00,00,00} Output P3\n 0-0022: write register AI|12 {fc,00,00,00,00} Config P3\n\n * Race case\n\n 0-0022: write register AI|08 {ff,00,00,00,00} Output P3\n 0-0022: write register AI|08 {03,02,00,00,01} *** Wrong register ***\n 0-0022: write register AI|12 {fc,00,00,00,00} Config P3\n 0-0022: write register AI|49 {fc,fd,ff,ff,fe} Interrupt mask P0"
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"value": "AV:L - The vulnerable paths are reached only through local kernel interfaces — `/dev/gpiochipN` ioctls (`GPIO_V2_GET_LINE_IOCTL`, `GPIO_V2_LINE_SET_CONFIG_IOCTL`, `GPIO_V2_LINE_SET_VALUES_IOCTL`) or the legacy `/sys/class/gpio` attributes. No network or physical access is involved.\nAC:L - The attacker drives both sides of the race directly and without bound: one thread loops edge-detection setup/teardown to hit the unlocked `pca953x_irq_bus_sync_unlock()` writes while another loops value/bias writes that enter regmap under `i2c_lock`. The race occurred spontaneously ~1 in 1000 boots, so deliberate hammering wins it readily.\nPR:L - An open file descriptor on the GPIO chardev (or legacy sysfs GPIO attributes) is required; embedded, industrial and automotive distributions routinely grant these to a non-root `gpio` group via udev, so an ordinary unprivileged local user in the normal deployment for this driver qualifies.\nUI:N - The attacker performs every step itself via ioctls on its own file descriptors; no victim action, mount, or file open by another user is needed.\nS:U - The corruption is confined to kernel heap state and the I2C GPIO expander owned by the same kernel; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - With `.disable_locking = true`, the missing `i2c_lock` leaves the regmap register cache completely unserialized; `regcache_maple_write()`/`regcache_rbtree_write()` `kfree()`/`krealloc()` cache entries with no grace period while a concurrent walker still dereferences them, yielding a use-after-free read of kernel heap, and register reads return data from the wrong register.\nI:H - The commit documents interrupt-latch data being written into the expander's Output register, arbitrarily driving GPIO lines that gate power rails, resets and interlocks; additionally the unlocked cache path gives a use-after-free/double-free write primitive on the kernel heap.\nA:H - Concurrent unlocked mutation of the shared maple-tree/rbtree register cache with unsynchronized `kfree()` leads to double free and tree corruption — kernel oops or panic — and the expander can be left with interrupts wrongly latched or masked, wedging every GPIO consumer on the bus."
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