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

net/smc: initialize close_work early to avoid warning

We encountered a warning that close_work was canceled before
initialization.

WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 111103 at kernel/workqueue.c:3047 __flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0
Workqueue: events smc_lgr_terminate_work [smc]
RIP: 0010:__flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0
Call Trace:
? __wake_up_common+0x7a/0x190
? work_busy+0x80/0x80
__cancel_work_timer+0xe3/0x160
smc_close_cancel_work+0x1a/0x70 [smc]
smc_close_active_abort+0x207/0x360 [smc]
__smc_lgr_terminate.part.38+0xc8/0x180 [smc]
process_one_work+0x19e/0x340
worker_thread+0x30/0x370
? process_one_work+0x340/0x340
kthread+0x117/0x130
? __kthread_cancel_work+0x50/0x50
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

This is because when smc_close_cancel_work is triggered, e.g. the RDMA
driver is rmmod and the LGR is terminated, the conn->close_work is
flushed before initialization, resulting in WARN_ON(!work->func).

__smc_lgr_terminate | smc_connect_{rdma|ism}
-------------------------------------------------------------
| smc_conn_create
| \- smc_lgr_register_conn
for conn in lgr->conns_all |
\- smc_conn_kill |
\- smc_close_active_abort |
\- smc_close_cancel_work |
\- cancel_work_sync |
\- __flush_work |
(close_work) |
| smc_close_init
| \- INIT_WORK(&close_work)

So fix this by initializing close_work before establishing the
connection.
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00031}


Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:30:00 +0000

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{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:30:00 +0000

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Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:15:00 +0000

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: initialize close_work early to avoid warning We encountered a warning that close_work was canceled before initialization. WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 111103 at kernel/workqueue.c:3047 __flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0 Workqueue: events smc_lgr_terminate_work [smc] RIP: 0010:__flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0 Call Trace: ? __wake_up_common+0x7a/0x190 ? work_busy+0x80/0x80 __cancel_work_timer+0xe3/0x160 smc_close_cancel_work+0x1a/0x70 [smc] smc_close_active_abort+0x207/0x360 [smc] __smc_lgr_terminate.part.38+0xc8/0x180 [smc] process_one_work+0x19e/0x340 worker_thread+0x30/0x370 ? process_one_work+0x340/0x340 kthread+0x117/0x130 ? __kthread_cancel_work+0x50/0x50 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 This is because when smc_close_cancel_work is triggered, e.g. the RDMA driver is rmmod and the LGR is terminated, the conn->close_work is flushed before initialization, resulting in WARN_ON(!work->func). __smc_lgr_terminate | smc_connect_{rdma|ism} ------------------------------------------------------------- | smc_conn_create | \- smc_lgr_register_conn for conn in lgr->conns_all | \- smc_conn_kill | \- smc_close_active_abort | \- smc_close_cancel_work | \- cancel_work_sync | \- __flush_work | (close_work) | | smc_close_init | \- INIT_WORK(&close_work) So fix this by initializing close_work before establishing the connection.
Title net/smc: initialize close_work early to avoid warning
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-04T10:00:48.736Z

Reserved: 2024-12-27T15:00:39.839Z

Link: CVE-2024-56641

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No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2024-12-27T15:15:23.830

Modified: 2024-12-27T15:15:23.830

Link: CVE-2024-56641

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-12-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-56641 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2025-07-12T22:31:17Z