vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2024-57939: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jan 21, 2025 | Feb 10, 2025 | May 27, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: Fix sleeping in invalid context in die()
die() can be called in exception handler, and therefore cannot sleep.
However, die() takes spinlock_t which can sleep with PREEMPT_RT enabled.
That causes the following warning:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 285, name: mutex
preempt_count: 110001, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 285 Comm: mutex Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-00022-ge19049cf7d56-dirty #234
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
Call Trace:
dump_backtrace+0x1c/0x24
show_stack+0x2c/0x38
dump_stack_lvl+0x5a/0x72
dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
__might_resched+0x130/0x13a
rt_spin_lock+0x2a/0x5c
die+0x24/0x112
do_trap_insn_illegal+0xa0/0xea
_new_vmalloc_restore_context_a0+0xcc/0xd8
Oops - illegal instruction [#1]
Switch to use raw_spinlock_t, which does not sleep even with PREEMPT_RT
enabled.
Solution(s)
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