{"cve":"CVE-2024-57889","nvd":{"published":"2025-01-15T13:15:13.347","modified":"2026-06-17T08:14:09.287","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npinctrl: mcp23s08: Fix sleeping in atomic context due to regmap locking\n\nIf a device uses MCP23xxx IO expander to receive IRQs, the following\nbug can happen:\n\n  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context\n    at kernel/locking/mutex.c:283\n  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, ...\n  preempt_count: 1, expected: 0\n  ...\n  Call Trace:\n  ...\n  __might_resched+0x104/0x10e\n  __might_sleep+0x3e/0x62\n  mutex_lock+0x20/0x4c\n  regmap_lock_mutex+0x10/0x18\n  regmap_update_bits_base+0x2c/0x66\n  mcp23s08_irq_set_type+0x1ae/0x1d6\n  __irq_set_trigger+0x56/0x172\n  __setup_irq+0x1e6/0x646\n  request_threaded_irq+0xb6/0x160\n  ...\n\nWe observed the problem while experimenting with a touchscreen driver which\nused MCP23017 IO expander (I2C).\n\nThe regmap in the pinctrl-mcp23s08 driver uses a mutex for protection from\nconcurrent accesses, which is the default for regmaps without .fast_io,\n.disable_locking, etc.\n\nmcp23s08_irq_set_type() calls regmap_update_bits_base(), and the latter\nlocks the mutex.\n\nHowever, __setup_irq() locks desc->lock spinlock before calling these\nfunctions. As a result, the system tries to lock the mutex whole holding\nthe spinlock.\n\nIt seems, the internal regmap locks are not needed in this driver at all.\nmcp->lock seems to protect the regmap from concurrent accesses already,\nexcept, probably, in mcp_pinconf_get/set.\n\nmcp23s08_irq_set_type() and mcp23s08_irq_mask/unmask() are called under\nchip_bus_lock(), which calls mcp23s08_irq_bus_lock(). The latter takes\nmcp->lock and enables regmap caching, so that the potentially slow I2C\naccesses are deferred until chip_bus_unlock().\n\nThe accesses to the regmap from mcp23s08_probe_one() do not need additional\nlocking.\n\nIn all remaining places where the regmap is accessed, except\nmcp_pinconf_get/set(), the driver already takes mcp->lock.\n\nThis patch adds locking in mcp_pinconf_get/set() and disables internal\nlocking in the regmap config. Among other things, it fixes the sleeping\nin atomic context described above.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-667"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0310cbad163a908d09d99c26827859365cd71fcb","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/788d9e9a41b81893d6bb8faa05f045c975278318","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/830f838589522404cd7c2f0f540602f25034af61","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c6fd5803b988a5e78c9b9e42c70a936d7cfc6ec","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9372e160d8211a7e17f2abff8370794f182df785"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:58:20.756570362+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-57889","score":0.00166,"percentile":0.05808,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}