CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-44968

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: tick/broadcast: Move per CPU pointer access into the atomic section The recent fix for making the take over of the broadcast timer more reliable retrieves a per CPU pointer in preemptible context. This went unnoticed as compilers hoist the access into the non-preemptible region where the pointer is actually used. But of course it's valid that the compiler keeps it at the place where the code puts it which rightfully triggers: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: caller is hotplug_cpu__broadcast_tick_pull+0x1c/0xc0 Move it to the actual usage site which is in a non-preemptible region.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.103 < 6.1.105) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.44 < 6.6.46) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.10.3 < 6.10.5) • linux linux kernel 6.11

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