# CVE-2024-50192: irqchip/gic-v4: Don't allow a VMOVP on a dying VPE

- Severity: CVSS 4.7 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-11-08 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/gic-v4: Don't allow a VMOVP on a dying VPE Kunkun Jiang reported that there is a small window of opportunity for userspace to force a change of affinity for a VPE while the VPE has already been unmapped, but the corresponding doorbell interrupt still visible in /proc/irq/. Plug the race by checking the value of vmapp_count, which tracks whether the VPE is mapped ot not, and returning an error in this case. This involves making vmapp_count common to both GICv4.1 and its v4.0 ancestor.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7d7b7fc876f836f40bf48a87e07ea18756ba196
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/755b9532c885b8761fb135fedcd705e21e61cccb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64b12b061c5488e2d69e67c4eaae5da64fd30bfe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01282ab5182f85e42234df2ff42f0ce790f465ff
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d960505a869e66184fff97fb334980a5b797c7c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1442ee0011983f0c5c4b92380e6853afb513841a

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