Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drop_monitor: replace spin_lock by raw_spin_lock
trace_drop_common() is called with preemption disabled, and it acquires a spin_lock. This is problematic for RT kernels because spin_locks are sleeping locks in this configuration, which causes the following splat:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 449, name: rcuc/47
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 2, expected: 2
5 locks held by rcuc/47/449:
#0: ff1100086ec30a60 ((softirq_ctrl.lock)){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x105/0x210
#1: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){….}-{1:2}, at: rt_spin_lock+0xbf/0x130
#2: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){….}-{1:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x11c/0x210
#3: ffffffffb394a160 (rcu_callback){….}-{0:0}, at: rcu_do_batch+0x360/0xc70
#4: ff1100086ee07520 (&data->lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290
irq event stamp: 139909
hardirqs last enabled at (139908): [
trace_drop_common() also disables interrupts, but this is a minor issue because we could easily replace it with a local_lock.
Replace the spin_lock with raw_spin_lock to avoid sleeping in atomic context.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 3.10.0 (+15 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drop_monitor: replace spin_lock by raw_spin_lock
trace_drop_common() is called with preemption disabled, and it acquires a spin_lock. This is problematic for RT kernels because spin_locks are sleeping locks in this configuration, which causes the following splat:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 449, name: rcuc/47
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 2, expected: 2
5 locks held by rcuc/47/449:
#0: ff1100086ec30a60 ((softirq_ctrl.lock)){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x105/0x210
#1: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){….}-{1:2}, at: rt_spin_lock+0xbf/0x130
#2: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){….}-{1:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x11c/0x210
#3: ffffffffb394a160 (rcu_callback){….}-{0:0}, at: rcu_do_batch+0x360/0xc70
#4: ff1100086ee07520 (&data->lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290
irq event stamp: 139909
hardirqs last enabled at (139908): [
trace_drop_common() also disables interrupts, but this is a minor issue because we could easily replace it with a local_lock.
Replace the spin_lock with raw_spin_lock to avoid sleeping in atomic context.