| From bippy-5f407fcff5a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
| To: <linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org> |
| Reply-to: <cve@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> |
| Subject: CVE-2024-49573: sched/fair: Fix NEXT_BUDDY |
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| Description |
| =========== |
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| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: |
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| sched/fair: Fix NEXT_BUDDY |
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| Adam reports that enabling NEXT_BUDDY insta triggers a WARN in |
| pick_next_entity(). |
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| Moving clear_buddies() up before the delayed dequeue bits ensures |
| no ->next buddy becomes delayed. Further ensure no new ->next buddy |
| ever starts as delayed. |
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| The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-49573 to this issue. |
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| Affected and fixed versions |
| =========================== |
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| Issue introduced in 6.12 with commit 152e11f6df293e816a6a37c69757033cdc72667d and fixed in 6.12.7 with commit 5dbe6816c49197677a5ecce749bd99929da147da |
| Issue introduced in 6.12 with commit 152e11f6df293e816a6a37c69757033cdc72667d and fixed in 6.13 with commit 493afbd187c4c9cc1642792c0d9ba400c3d6d90d |
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| Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported |
| kernel versions by the kernel community. |
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| Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to |
| older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at |
| https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2024-49573 |
| will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most |
| up to date information about this issue. |
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| Affected files |
| ============== |
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| The file(s) affected by this issue are: |
| kernel/sched/fair.c |
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| Mitigation |
| ========== |
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| The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest |
| stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual |
| changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel |
| release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or |
| supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to |
| the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this |
| issue can be found at these commits: |
| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5dbe6816c49197677a5ecce749bd99929da147da |
| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/493afbd187c4c9cc1642792c0d9ba400c3d6d90d |
