CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-56640
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-12-27
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: fix LGR and link use-after-free issue
We encountered a LGR/link use-after-free issue, which manifested as
the LGR/link refcnt reaching 0 early and entering the clear process,
making resource access unsafe.
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 107447 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0x140
Workqueue: events smc_lgr_terminate_work [smc]
Call trace:
refcount_warn_saturate+0x9c/0x140
__smc_lgr_terminate.part.45+0x2a8/0x370 [smc]
smc_lgr_terminate_work+0x28/0x30 [smc]
process_one_work+0x1b8/0x420
worker_thread+0x158/0x510
kthread+0x114/0x118
or
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 93140 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xf0/0x140
Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_work [smc]
Call trace:
refcount_warn_saturate+0xf0/0x140
smcr_link_put+0x1cc/0x1d8 [smc]
smc_conn_free+0x110/0x1b0 [smc]
smc_conn_abort+0x50/0x60 [smc]
smc_listen_find_device+0x75c/0x790 [smc]
smc_listen_work+0x368/0x8a0 [smc]
process_one_work+0x1b8/0x420
worker_thread+0x158/0x510
kthread+0x114/0x118
It is caused by repeated release of LGR/link refcnt. One suspect is that
smc_conn_free() is called repeatedly because some smc_conn_free() from
server listening path are not protected by sock lock.
e.g.
Calls under socklock | smc_listen_work
-------------------------------------------------------
lock_sock(sk) | smc_conn_abort
smc_conn_free | \- smc_conn_free
\- smcr_link_put | \- smcr_link_put (duplicated)
release_sock(sk)
So here add sock lock protection in smc_listen_work() path, making it
exclusive with other connection operations.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.18 < 5.15.174)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.120)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.66)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.5)
• linux linux kernel 6.13
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cf598548a6c36d90681d53c6b77d52363f2f295 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c7f14ed9c19ec0f149479d1c2842ec1f9bf76d7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/673d606683ac70bc074ca6676b938bff18635226 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f0ae06a234a78ae137064f2c89135ac078a00eb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f502a88fdd415647a1f2dc45fac71b9c522a052b Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org