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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Apr 2, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 2, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

netdevsim: avoid potential loop in nsim_dev_trap_report_work()

Many syzbot reports include the following trace [1]

If nsim_dev_trap_report_work() can not grab the mutex,
it should rearm itself at least one jiffie later.

[1]
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 32383 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-syzkaller-00031-g861c0981648f #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023
Workqueue: events nsim_dev_trap_report_work
RIP: 0010:bytes_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:89 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_nonzero mm/kasan/generic.c:104 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned_n mm/kasan/generic.c:129 [inline]
RIP: 0010:memory_is_poisoned mm/kasan/generic.c:161 [inline]
RIP: 0010:check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:180 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x101/0x190 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
Code: 07 49 39 d1 75 0a 45 3a 11 b8 01 00 00 00 7c 0b 44 89 c2 e8 21 ed ff ff 83 f0 01 5b 5d 41 5c c3 48 85 d2 74 4f 48 01 ea eb 09 <48> 83 c0 01 48 39 d0 74 41 80 38 00 74 f2 eb b6 41 bc 08 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc90012dcf998 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: fffffbfff258af1e RBX: fffffbfff258af1f RCX: ffffffff8168eda3
RDX: fffffbfff258af1f RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffffff92c578f0
RBP: fffffbfff258af1e R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffffbfff258af1e
R10: ffffffff92c578f3 R11: ffffffff8acbcbc0 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffff88806db38400 R14: 1ffff920025b9f42 R15: ffffffff92c578e8
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000c00994e078 CR3: 000000002c250000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:



instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:68 [inline]
atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:32 [inline]
queued_spin_is_locked include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:57 [inline]
debug_spin_unlock kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:101 [inline]
do_raw_spin_unlock+0x53/0x230 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:141
__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:150 [inline]
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x22/0x70 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
debug_object_activate+0x349/0x540 lib/debugobjects.c:726
debug_work_activate kernel/workqueue.c:578 [inline]
insert_work+0x30/0x230 kernel/workqueue.c:1650
__queue_work+0x62e/0x11d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1802
__queue_delayed_work+0x1bf/0x270 kernel/workqueue.c:1953
queue_delayed_work_on+0x106/0x130 kernel/workqueue.c:1989
queue_delayed_work include/linux/workqueue.h:563 [inline]
schedule_delayed_work include/linux/workqueue.h:677 [inline]
nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x9c0/0xc80 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:842
process_one_work+0x886/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2633
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2706 [inline]
worker_thread+0x8b9/0x1290 kernel/workqueue.c:2787
kthread+0x2c6/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:388
ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:242

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 2, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 2, 2024
Last updated Apr 2, 2024

Severity

Unknown

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2024-26681

GHSA ID

GHSA-968x-w27q-c8fx

Source code

No known source code

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