In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpu/hotplug: Don't offline the last non-isolated CPU
If a system has isolated CPUs via the "isolcpus=" command line parameter,
then an attempt to offline the last housekeeping CPU will result in a
WARN_ON() when rebuilding the scheduler domains and a subsequent panic due
to and unhandled empty CPU mas in partition_sched_domains_locked().
cpuset_hotplug_workfn()
rebuild_sched_domains_locked()
ndoms = generate_sched_domains(&doms, &attr);
cpumask_and(doms[0], top_cpuset.effective_cpus, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_DOMAIN));
Thus results in an empty CPU mask which triggers the warning and then the
subsequent crash:
WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 80 at kernel/sched/topology.c:2366 build_sched_domains+0x120c/0x1408
Call trace:
build_sched_domains+0x120c/0x1408
partition_sched_domains_locked+0x234/0x880
rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x37c/0x798
rebuild_sched_domains+0x30/0x58
cpuset_hotplug_workfn+0x2a8/0x930
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffe80027ab37080
partition_sched_domains_locked+0x318/0x880
rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x37c/0x798
Aside of the resulting crash, it does not make any sense to offline the last
last housekeeping CPU.
Prevent this by masking out the non-housekeeping CPUs when selecting a
target CPU for initiating the CPU unplug operation via the work queue.
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Affected Vendors & Products
References
History
Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:30:00 +0000
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Vendors & Products |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2024-05-21T15:31:33.566Z
Updated: 2024-11-04T14:53:28.043Z
Reserved: 2024-05-21T15:19:24.251Z
Link: CVE-2023-52831
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2024-08-02T23:11:36.073Z
NVD
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2024-05-21T16:15:20.743
Modified: 2024-05-21T16:53:56.550
Link: CVE-2023-52831
Redhat