CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-57939
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-01-21
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 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:
riscv: Fix sleeping in invalid context in die()
die() can be called in exception handler, and therefore cannot sleep.
However, die() takes spinlock_t which can sleep with PREEMPT_RT enabled.
That causes the following warning:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 285, name: mutex
preempt_count: 110001, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 285 Comm: mutex Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-00022-ge19049cf7d56-dirty #234
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
Call Trace:
dump_backtrace+0x1c/0x24
show_stack+0x2c/0x38
dump_stack_lvl+0x5a/0x72
dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
__might_resched+0x130/0x13a
rt_spin_lock+0x2a/0x5c
die+0x24/0x112
do_trap_insn_illegal+0xa0/0xea
_new_vmalloc_restore_context_a0+0xcc/0xd8
Oops - illegal instruction [#1]
Switch to use raw_spinlock_t, which does not sleep even with PREEMPT_RT
enabled.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 5.10.234)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 <= 5.15.177)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 <= 6.1.125)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 <= 6.6.72)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 <= 6.12.10)
• linux linux kernel 6.13
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10c24df2e303f517fab0359392c11b6b1d553f2b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a97f4118ac07cfdc316433f385dbdc12af5025e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76ab0afcdbe8c9685b589016ee1c0e25fe596707 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c38baa03ac8e18140faf36a3b955d30cad48e74 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c21df31fc2a4afc02a6e56511364e9e793ea92ec Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f48f060a4b36b5e96628f6c3fb1540f1e8dedb69 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org