CVE-2022-50103

sched, cpuset: Fix dl_cpu_busy() panic due to empty cs->cpus_allowed

published June 18, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

sched, cpuset: Fix dl_cpu_busy() panic due to empty cs->cpus_allowed

With cgroup v2, the cpuset's cpus_allowed mask can be empty indicating

that the cpuset will just use the effective CPUs of its parent. So

cpuset_can_attach() can call task_can_attach() with an empty mask.

This can lead to cpumask_any_and() returns nr_cpu_ids causing the call

to dl_bw_of() to crash due to percpu value access of an out of bound

CPU value. For example:

[80468.182258] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffff8b6648b0

:

[80468.191019] RIP: 0010:dl_cpu_busy+0x30/0x2b0

:

[80468.207946] Call Trace:

[80468.208947] cpuset_can_attach+0xa0/0x140

[80468.209953] cgroup_migrate_execute+0x8c/0x490

[80468.210931] cgroup_update_dfl_csses+0x254/0x270

[80468.211898] cgroup_subtree_control_write+0x322/0x400

[80468.212854] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x11c/0x1b0

[80468.213777] new_sync_write+0x11f/0x1b0

[80468.214689] vfs_write+0x1eb/0x280

[80468.215592] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0

[80468.216463] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x80

[80468.224287] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Fix that by using effective_cpus instead. For cgroup v1, effective_cpus

is the same as cpus_allowed. For v2, effective_cpus is the real cpumask

to be used by tasks within the cpuset anyway.

Also update task_can_attach()'s 2nd argument name to cs_effective_cpus to

reflect the change. In addition, a check is added to task_can_attach()

to guard against the possibility that cpumask_any_and() may return a

value >= nr_cpu_ids.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00198 · 9.1th percentile
Published
2025-06-18T11:02Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 11:02Z
    sched, cpuset: Fix dl_cpu_busy() panic due to empty cs->cpus_allowed
    cvelistv5