arm64/sme: Always exit sme_alloc() early with existing stora… (CVE-2024-26618)

Summary

arm64/sme: Always exit sme_alloc() early with existing storage

Original description

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

arm64/sme: Always exit sme_alloc() early with existing storage

When sme_alloc() is called with existing storage and we are not flushing we
will always allocate new storage, both leaking the existing storage and
corrupting the state. Fix this by separating the checks for flushing and
for existing storage as we do for SVE.

Callers that reallocate (eg, due to changing the vector length) should
call sme_free() themselves.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

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Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26618 linux Fixed in: 6.1.140-1

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