CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-44958

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-09-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-09-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/smt: Fix unbalance sched_smt_present dec/inc I got the following warn report while doing stress test: jump label: negative count! WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 38 at kernel/jump_label.c:263 static_key_slow_try_dec+0x9d/0xb0 Call Trace: <TASK> __static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked+0x16/0x70 sched_cpu_deactivate+0x26e/0x2a0 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x3ad/0x10d0 cpuhp_thread_fun+0x3f5/0x680 smpboot_thread_fn+0x56d/0x8d0 kthread+0x309/0x400 ret_from_fork+0x41/0x70 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 </TASK> Because when cpuset_cpu_inactive() fails in sched_cpu_deactivate(), the cpu offline failed, but sched_smt_present is decremented before calling sched_cpu_deactivate(), it leads to unbalanced dec/inc, so fix it by incrementing sched_smt_present in the error path.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.14.86 < 4.15) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.7 < 4.20) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.15.165) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.105) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.46) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.5) • linux linux kernel 6.11

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