CVE-2024-56718

CVE-2024-56718

Critical · published December 29, 2024

CVSS v3.1
9.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net/smc: protect link down work from execute after lgr freed

link down work may be scheduled before lgr freed but execute

after lgr freed, which may result in crash. So it is need to

hold a reference before shedule link down work, and put the

reference after work executed or canceled.

The relevant crash call stack as follows:

list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffffb638c9c0fe20,

but was 0000000000000000

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

kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:51!

invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI

CPU: 6 PID: 978112 Comm: kworker/6:119 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G #1

Hardware name: Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud ECS, BIOS 2221b89 04/01/2014

Workqueue: events smc_link_down_work [smc]

RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid.cold+0x31/0x47

RSP: 0018:ffffb638c9c0fdd8 EFLAGS: 00010086

RAX: 0000000000000054 RBX: ffff942fb75e5128 RCX: 0000000000000000

RDX: ffff943520930aa0 RSI: ffff94352091fc80 RDI: ffff94352091fc80

RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffb638c9c0fc38

R10: ffffb638c9c0fc30 R11: ffffffffa015eb28 R12: 0000000000000002

R13: ffffb638c9c0fe20 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff942f9cd051c0

FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff943520900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 00007f4f25214000 CR3: 000000025fbae004 CR4: 00000000007706e0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

PKRU: 55555554

Call Trace:

rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x17e/0x470

smc_link_down_work+0x3c/0x60 [smc]

process_one_work+0x1ac/0x350

worker_thread+0x49/0x2f0

? rescuer_thread+0x360/0x360

kthread+0x118/0x140

? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60

ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.8 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00466 · 39.4th percentile
Published
2024-12-29T14:15Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.8, < 6.1.1226.1.122
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.686.6.68
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.76.12.7
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 DEC 08:48Z
    net/smc: protect link down work from execute after lgr freed
    cvelistv5