CVE-2024-49866: tracing/timerlat: Fix a race during cpuhp processing
First published: Mon Oct 21 2024(Updated: )
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/timerlat: Fix a race during cpuhp processing There is another found exception that the "timerlat/1" thread was scheduled on CPU0, and lead to timer corruption finally: ``` ODEBUG: init active (active state 0) object: ffff888237c2e108 object type: hrtimer hint: timerlat_irq+0x0/0x220 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 426 at lib/debugobjects.c:518 debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 426 Comm: timerlat/1 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc7+ #45 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0 ... Call Trace: <TASK> ? __warn+0x7c/0x110 ? debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0 ? report_bug+0xf1/0x1d0 ? prb_read_valid+0x17/0x20 ? handle_bug+0x3f/0x70 ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 ? debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0 ? debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0 ? __pfx_timerlat_irq+0x10/0x10 __debug_object_init+0x110/0x150 hrtimer_init+0x1d/0x60 timerlat_main+0xab/0x2d0 ? __pfx_timerlat_main+0x10/0x10 kthread+0xb7/0xe0 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x40 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK> ``` After tracing the scheduling event, it was discovered that the migration of the "timerlat/1" thread was performed during thread creation. Further analysis confirmed that it is because the CPU online processing for osnoise is implemented through workers, which is asynchronous with the offline processing. When the worker was scheduled to create a thread, the CPU may has already been removed from the cpu_online_mask during the offline process, resulting in the inability to select the right CPU: T1 | T2 [CPUHP_ONLINE] | cpu_device_down() osnoise_hotplug_workfn() | | cpus_write_lock() | takedown_cpu(1) | cpus_write_unlock() [CPUHP_OFFLINE] | cpus_read_lock() | start_kthread(1) | cpus_read_unlock() | To fix this, skip online processing if the CPU is already offline.
Credit: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux kernel | >=5.14<5.15.168 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=5.16<6.1.113 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=6.2<6.6.55 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=6.7<6.10.14 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=6.11<6.11.3 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | =6.12-rc1 | |
| debian/linux | 5.10.223-1 5.10.226-1 6.1.115-1 6.1.119-1 6.12.5-1 6.12.6-1 |
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Reference Links
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/322920b53dc11f9c2b33397eb3ae5bc6a175b60d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce25f33ba89d6eefef64157655d318444580fa14
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6e9849063a6c8f4cb2f652a437e44e3ed24356c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0d9c0cd5856191e095cf43a2e141b73945b7716
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f72b451dc75578f644a3019c1489e9ae2c14e6c4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/829e0c9f0855f26b3ae830d17b24aec103f7e915
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-49866
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49866
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2024-49866
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-49866
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-49866
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/829e0c9f0855f26b3ae830d17b24aec103f7e915
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