Security Advisory
CVE-2021-47437
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: adis16475: fix deadlock on frequency set
With commit 39c024b51b560
("iio: adis16475: improve sync scale mode handling"), two deadlocks were
introduced:
1) The call to 'adis_write_reg_16()' was not changed to it's unlocked
version.
2) The lock was not being released on the success path of the function.
This change fixes both these issues.
Published Date
May 22, 2024
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory