CVE-2024-58042

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.12-6.12.12, 6.13-6.13.1, >=6.14 - Improper Locking in rhashtable Growth Check

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rhashtable: Fix potential deadlock by moving schedule_work outside lock Move the hash table growth check and work scheduling outside the rht lock to prevent a possible circular locking dependency. The original implementation could trigger a lockdep warning due to a potential deadlock scenario involving nested locks between rhashtable bucket, rq lock, and dsq lock. By relocating the growth check and work scheduling after releasing the rth lock, we break this potential deadlock chain. This change expands the flexibility of rhashtable by removing restrictive locking that previously limited its use in scheduler and workqueue contexts. Import to say that this calls rht_grow_above_75(), which reads from struct rhashtable without holding the lock, if this is a problem, we can move the check to the lock, and schedule the workqueue after the lock. Modified so that atomic_inc is also moved outside of the bucket lock along with the growth above 75% check.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (11)
linux/Kernel 6.12.0 - 6.12.13linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.2linux
Linux/Linux < 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.12.13 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13.2 - 6.13.*
Linux/Linux 6.14
Linux/Linux f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f - ced8ce3c83a7150c5f5d371a8c332d7bc7f9b66d
Linux/Linux f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f - e1d3422c95f003eba241c176adfe593c33e8a8f6
Linux/Linux f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f - eb2e58484b838fb4e777ee9721bb9e20e6ca971d
... and 1 more
Published Feb 27, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026