vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-49866

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Added
Oct 14, 2025
Modified
Oct 14, 2025

Description

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

tracing/timerlat: Fix a race during cpuhp processing

There is another found exception that the "timerlat/1" thread was
scheduled on CPU0, and lead to timer corruption finally:

```
ODEBUG: init active (active state 0) object: ffff888237c2e108 object type: hrtimer hint: timerlat_irq+0x0/0x220
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 426 at lib/debugobjects.c:518 debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 426 Comm: timerlat/1 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc7+ #45
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __warn+0x7c/0x110
? debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0
? report_bug+0xf1/0x1d0
? prb_read_valid+0x17/0x20
? handle_bug+0x3f/0x70
? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
? debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0
? debug_print_object+0x7d/0xb0
? __pfx_timerlat_irq+0x10/0x10
__debug_object_init+0x110/0x150
hrtimer_init+0x1d/0x60
timerlat_main+0xab/0x2d0
? __pfx_timerlat_main+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xb7/0xe0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x40
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
```

After tracing the scheduling event, it was discovered that the migration
of the "timerlat/1" thread was performed during thread creation. Further
analysis confirmed that it is because the CPU online processing for
osnoise is implemented through workers, which is asynchronous with the
offline processing. When the worker was scheduled to create a thread, the
CPU may has already been removed from the cpu_online_mask during the offline
process, resulting in the inability to select the right CPU:

T1 | T2
[CPUHP_ONLINE] | cpu_device_down()
osnoise_hotplug_workfn() |
| cpus_write_lock()
| takedown_cpu(1)
| cpus_write_unlock()
[CPUHP_OFFLINE] |
cpus_read_lock() |
start_kthread(1) |
cpus_read_unlock() |

To fix this, skip online processing if the CPU is already offline.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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