vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-26602: kernel: sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 26, 2024
Added
Mar 13, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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

sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier

On some systems, sys_membarrier can be very expensive, causing overall
slowdowns for everything. So put a lock on the path in order to
serialize the accesses to prevent the ability for this to be called at
too high of a frequency and saturate the machine.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

References

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