vulnerability
Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-46678: kernel security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Sep 13, 2024 | Feb 11, 2025 | Apr 1, 2026 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bonding: change ipsec_lock from spin lock to mutex
In the cited commit, bond->ipsec_lock is added to protect ipsec_list,
hence xdo_dev_state_add and xdo_dev_state_delete are called inside
this lock. As ipsec_lock is a spin lock and such xfrmdev ops may sleep,
"scheduling while atomic" will be triggered when changing bond's
active slave.
[ 101.055189] BUG: scheduling while atomic: bash/902/0x00000200
[ 101.055726] Modules linked in:
[ 101.058211] CPU: 3 PID: 902 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4+ #1
[ 101.058760] Hardware name:
[ 101.059434] Call Trace:
[ 101.059436] <TASK>
[ 101.060873] dump_stack_lvl+0x51/0x60
[ 101.061275] __schedule_bug+0x4e/0x60
[ 101.061682] __schedule+0x612/0x7c0
[ 101.062078] ? __mod_timer+0x25c/0x370
[ 101.062486] schedule+0x25/0xd0
[ 101.062845] schedule_timeout+0x77/0xf0
[ 101.063265] ? asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40
[ 101.063724] ? __bpf_trace_itimer_state+0x10/0x10
[ 101.064215] __wait_for_common+0x87/0x190
[ 101.064648] ? usleep_range_state+0x90/0x90
[ 101.065091] cmd_exec+0x437/0xb20 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.065569] mlx5_cmd_do+0x1e/0x40 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.066051] mlx5_cmd_exec+0x18/0x30 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.066552] mlx5_crypto_create_dek_key+0xea/0x120 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.067163] ? bonding_sysfs_store_option+0x4d/0x80 [bonding]
[ 101.067738] ? kmalloc_trace+0x4d/0x350
[ 101.068156] mlx5_ipsec_create_sa_ctx+0x33/0x100 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.068747] mlx5e_xfrm_add_state+0x47b/0xaa0 [mlx5_core]
[ 101.069312] bond_change_active_slave+0x392/0x900 [bonding]
[ 101.069868] bond_option_active_slave_set+0x1c2/0x240 [bonding]
[ 101.070454] __bond_opt_set+0xa6/0x430 [bonding]
[ 101.070935] __bond_opt_set_notify+0x2f/0x90 [bonding]
[ 101.071453] bond_opt_tryset_rtnl+0x72/0xb0 [bonding]
[ 101.071965] bonding_sysfs_store_option+0x4d/0x80 [bonding]
[ 101.072567] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x10c/0x1a0
[ 101.073033] vfs_write+0x2d8/0x400
[ 101.073416] ? alloc_fd+0x48/0x180
[ 101.073798] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
[ 101.074175] do_syscall_64+0x52/0x110
[ 101.074576] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
As bond_ipsec_add_sa_all and bond_ipsec_del_sa_all are only called
from bond_change_active_slave, which requires holding the RTNL lock.
And bond_ipsec_add_sa and bond_ipsec_del_sa are xfrm state
xdo_dev_state_add and xdo_dev_state_delete APIs, which are in user
context. So ipsec_lock doesn't have to be spin lock, change it to
mutex, and thus the above issue can be resolved.
Solutions
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