vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-26838): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
4 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 04/17/2024 | 07/01/2024 | 04/04/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/irdma: Fix KASAN issue with tasklet
KASAN testing revealed the following issue assocated with freeing an IRQ.
[50006.466686] Call Trace:
[50006.466691]
[50006.489538] dump_stack+0x5c/0x80
[50006.493475] print_address_description.constprop.6+0x1a/0x150
[50006.499872] ? irdma_sc_process_ceq+0x483/0x790 [irdma]
[50006.505742] ? irdma_sc_process_ceq+0x483/0x790 [irdma]
[50006.511644] kasan_report.cold.11+0x7f/0x118
[50006.516572] ? irdma_sc_process_ceq+0x483/0x790 [irdma]
[50006.522473] irdma_sc_process_ceq+0x483/0x790 [irdma]
[50006.528232] irdma_process_ceq+0xb2/0x400 [irdma]
[50006.533601] ? irdma_hw_flush_wqes_callback+0x370/0x370 [irdma]
[50006.540298] irdma_ceq_dpc+0x44/0x100 [irdma]
[50006.545306] tasklet_action_common.isra.14+0x148/0x2c0
[50006.551096] __do_softirq+0x1d0/0xaf8
[50006.555396] irq_exit_rcu+0x219/0x260
[50006.559670] irq_exit+0xa/0x20
[50006.563320] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1bf/0x690
[50006.568645] apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
[50006.573341]
The issue is that a tasklet could be pending on another core racing
the delete of the irq.
Fix by insuring any scheduled tasklet is killed after deleting the
irq.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2024-26838
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-26838
- UBUNTU-USN-6820-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6820-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6821-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6821-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6821-3
- UBUNTU-USN-6821-4
- UBUNTU-USN-6828-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6871-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6892-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6895-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6895-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6895-3
- UBUNTU-USN-6895-4
- UBUNTU-USN-6900-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6919-1

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