CVE-2022-48845

MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier

published July 16, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier

After enabling CONFIG_SCHED_CORE (landed during 5.14 cycle),

2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv (CPS-driven) started emitting

the following:

[ 0.025698] CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 (MIPS interAptiv (multi))

[ 0.048183] ------------[ cut here ]------------

[ 0.048187] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/core.c:6025 sched_core_cpu_starting+0x198/0x240

[ 0.048220] Modules linked in:

[ 0.048233] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3+ #35 b7b319f24073fd9a3c2aa7ad15fb7993eec0b26f

[ 0.048247] Stack : 817f0000 00000004 327804c8 810eb050 00000000 00000004 00000000 c314fdd1

[ 0.048278] 830cbd64 819c0000 81800000 817f0000 83070bf4 00000001 830cbd08 00000000

[ 0.048307] 00000000 00000000 815fcbc4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

[ 0.048334] 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 817f0000 00000000 00000000 817f6f34

[ 0.048361] 817f0000 818a3c00 817f0000 00000004 00000000 00000000 4dc33260 0018c933

[ 0.048389] ...

[ 0.048396] Call Trace:

[ 0.048399] [<8105a7bc>] show_stack+0x3c/0x140

[ 0.048424] [<8131c2a0>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80

[ 0.048440] [<8108b5c0>] __warn+0xc0/0xf4

[ 0.048454] [<8108b658>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x64/0x10c

[ 0.048467] [<810bd418>] sched_core_cpu_starting+0x198/0x240

[ 0.048483] [<810c6514>] sched_cpu_starting+0x14/0x80

[ 0.048497] [<8108c0f8>] cpuhp_invoke_callback_range+0x78/0x140

[ 0.048510] [<8108d914>] notify_cpu_starting+0x94/0x140

[ 0.048523] [<8106593c>] start_secondary+0xbc/0x280

[ 0.048539]

[ 0.048543] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

[ 0.048636] Synchronize counters for CPU 1: done.

...for each but CPU 0/boot.

Basic debug printks right before the mentioned line say:

[ 0.048170] CPU: 1, smt_mask:

So smt_mask, which is sibling mask obviously, is empty when entering

the function.

This is critical, as sched_core_cpu_starting() calculates

core-scheduling parameters only once per CPU start, and it's crucial

to have all the parameters filled in at that moment (at least it

uses cpu_smt_mask() which in fact is `&cpu_sibling_map[cpu]` on

MIPS).

A bit of debugging led me to that set_cpu_sibling_map() performing

the actual map calculation, was being invocated after

notify_cpu_start(), and exactly the latter function starts CPU HP

callback round (sched_core_cpu_starting() is basically a CPU HP

callback).

While the flow is same on ARM64 (maps after the notifier, although

before calling set_cpu_online()), x86 started calculating sibling

maps earlier than starting the CPU HP callbacks in Linux 4.14 (see

[0] for the reference). Neither me nor my brief tests couldn't find

any potential caveats in calculating the maps right after performing

delay calibration, but the WARN splat is now gone.

The very same debug prints now yield exactly what I expected from

them:

[ 0.048433] CPU: 1, smt_mask: 0-1

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git/commit/?id=76ce7cfe35ef

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00225 · 12.5th percentile
Published
2024-07-16T12:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUL 12:25Z
    MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier
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