CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-53172
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-12-27
- 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:
ubi: fastmap: Fix duplicate slab cache names while attaching
Since commit 4c39529663b9 ("slab: Warn on duplicate cache names when
DEBUG_VM=y"), the duplicate slab cache names can be detected and a
kernel WARNING is thrown out.
In UBI fast attaching process, alloc_ai() could be invoked twice
with the same slab cache name 'ubi_aeb_slab_cache', which will trigger
following warning messages:
kmem_cache of name 'ubi_aeb_slab_cache' already exists
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7519 at mm/slab_common.c:107
__kmem_cache_create_args+0x100/0x5f0
Modules linked in: ubi(+) nandsim [last unloaded: nandsim]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7519 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G 6.12.0-rc2
RIP: 0010:__kmem_cache_create_args+0x100/0x5f0
Call Trace:
__kmem_cache_create_args+0x100/0x5f0
alloc_ai+0x295/0x3f0 [ubi]
ubi_attach+0x3c3/0xcc0 [ubi]
ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x17cf/0x3fa0 [ubi]
ubi_init+0x3fb/0x800 [ubi]
do_init_module+0x265/0x7d0
__x64_sys_finit_module+0x7a/0xc0
The problem could be easily reproduced by loading UBI device by fastmap
with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
Fix it by using different slab names for alloc_ai() callers.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.1 < 4.19.325)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.287)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.231)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.174)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.120)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.64)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.2)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04c0b0f37617099479c34e207c5550d081f585a6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d8558135cd56a2a8052024be4073e160f36658c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/612824dd0c9465ef365ace38b056c663d110956d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6afdcb285794e75d2c8995e3a44f523c176cc2de Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7402c4bcb8a3f0d2ef4e687cd45c76be489cf509 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/871c148f8e0c32e505df9393ba4a303c3c3fe988 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1ee0aa4945c49cbbd779da81040fcec4de80fd1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcddf52b7a17adcebc768d26f4e27cf79adb424c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef52b7191ac41e68b1bf070d00c5b04ed16e4920 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html lists.debian.org