vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-43889): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 26, 2024
Added
Nov 12, 2024
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

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

padata: Fix possible divide-by-0 panic in padata_mt_helper()

We are hit with a not easily reproducible divide-by-0 panic in padata.c at
bootup time.

[ 10.017908] Oops: divide error: 0000 1 PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 10.017908] CPU: 26 PID: 2627 Comm: kworker/u1666:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-15.el10.x86_64 #1
[ 10.017908] Hardware name: Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 [7X12CTO1WW]/[7X12CTO1WW], BIOS [PSE140J-2.30] 07/20/2021
[ 10.017908] Workqueue: events_unbound padata_mt_helper
[ 10.017908] RIP: 0010:padata_mt_helper+0x39/0xb0
:
[ 10.017963] Call Trace:
[ 10.017968]
[ 10.018004] ? padata_mt_helper+0x39/0xb0
[ 10.018084] process_one_work+0x174/0x330
[ 10.018093] worker_thread+0x266/0x3a0
[ 10.018111] kthread+0xcf/0x100
[ 10.018124] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
[ 10.018138] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 10.018147]

Looking at the padata_mt_helper() function, the only way a divide-by-0
panic can happen is when ps->chunk_size is 0. The way that chunk_size is
initialized in padata_do_multithreaded(), chunk_size can be 0 when the
min_chunk in the passed-in padata_mt_job structure is 0.

Fix this divide-by-0 panic by making sure that chunk_size will be at least
1 no matter what the input parameters are.

Solution(s)

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