vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-40980): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 12, 2024
Added
Sep 12, 2024
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

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

drop_monitor: replace spin_lock by raw_spin_lock

trace_drop_common() is called with preemption disabled, and it acquires
a spin_lock. This is problematic for RT kernels because spin_locks are
sleeping locks in this configuration, which causes the following splat:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 449, name: rcuc/47
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 2, expected: 2
5 locks held by rcuc/47/449:
#0: ff1100086ec30a60 ((softirq_ctrl.lock)){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x105/0x210
#1: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rt_spin_lock+0xbf/0x130
#2: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x11c/0x210
#3: ffffffffb394a160 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_do_batch+0x360/0xc70
#4: ff1100086ee07520 (&data->lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290
irq event stamp: 139909
hardirqs last enabled at (139908): [] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x63/0x80
hardirqs last disabled at (139909): [] trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0x26d/0x290
softirqs last enabled at (139892): [] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x103/0x170
softirqs last disabled at (139898): [] rcu_cpu_kthread+0x93/0x1f0
Preemption disabled at:
[] rt_mutex_slowunlock+0xab/0x2e0
CPU: 47 PID: 449 Comm: rcuc/47 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc2-rt1+ #7
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R650/0Y2G81, BIOS 1.6.5 04/15/2022
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xd0
dump_stack+0x14/0x20
__might_resched+0x21e/0x2f0
rt_spin_lock+0x5e/0x130
? trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290
? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290
? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0
? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0x80
? __pfx_trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0x10/0x10
? rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x26a/0x2e0
? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
? __pfx_rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x10/0x10
? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
trace_kfree_skb_hit+0x15/0x20
trace_kfree_skb+0xe9/0x150
kfree_skb_reason+0x7b/0x110
skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230
? __pfx_skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x10/0x10
? mark_lock.part.0+0x8a/0x520
...

trace_drop_common() also disables interrupts, but this is a minor issue
because we could easily replace it with a local_lock.

Replace the spin_lock with raw_spin_lock to avoid sleeping in atomic
context.

Solution(s)

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