CVE-2024-57891

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.12-6.12.8 - Denial of Service via Invalid IRQ Restore in scx_ops_bypass()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched_ext: Fix invalid irq restore in scx_ops_bypass() While adding outer irqsave/restore locking, 0e7ffff1b811 ("scx: Fix raciness in scx_ops_bypass()") forgot to convert an inner rq_unlock_irqrestore() to rq_unlock() which could re-enable IRQ prematurely leading to the following warning: raw_local_irq_restore() called with IRQs enabled WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 96 at kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c:10 warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x30/0x40 ... Sched_ext: create_dsq (enabling) pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x30/0x40 lr : warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x30/0x40 ... Call trace: warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x30/0x40 (P) warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x30/0x40 (L) scx_ops_bypass+0x224/0x3b8 scx_ops_enable.isra.0+0x2c8/0xaa8 bpf_scx_reg+0x18/0x30 ... irq event stamp: 33739 hardirqs last enabled at (33739): [<ffff8000800b699c>] scx_ops_bypass+0x174/0x3b8 hardirqs last disabled at (33738): [<ffff800080d48ad4>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xb4/0xd8 Drop the stray _irqrestore().

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 6.12.0 - 6.12.9linux
Linux/Linux < 6.12
Linux/Linux 0e7ffff1b8117b05635c87d3c9099f6aa9c9b689 - 18b2093f4598d8ee67a8153badc93f0fa7686b8a
Linux/Linux 0e7ffff1b8117b05635c87d3c9099f6aa9c9b689 - 786362ce60d79967875f43e0ba55ad7a5376c133
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.12.9 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13
linux/linux_kernel 6.12 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.12.1 - 6.12.9
Published Jan 15, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026