Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: sched: fix use-after-free in taprio_change()
In ’taprio_change()’, ‘admin’ pointer may become dangling due to sched switch / removal caused by ‘advance_sched()’, and critical section protected by ‘q->current_entry_lock’ is too small to prevent from such a scenario (which causes use-after-free detected by KASAN). Fix this by prefer ‘rcu_replace_pointer()’ over ‘rcu_assign_pointer()’ to update ‘admin’ immediately before an attempt to schedule freeing.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel-uek @ 5.4.17 (+3 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: sched: fix use-after-free in taprio_change()
In ’taprio_change()’, ‘admin’ pointer may become dangling due to sched switch / removal caused by ‘advance_sched()’, and critical section protected by ‘q->current_entry_lock’ is too small to prevent from such a scenario (which causes use-after-free detected by KASAN). Fix this by prefer ‘rcu_replace_pointer()’ over ‘rcu_assign_pointer()’ to update ‘admin’ immediately before an attempt to schedule freeing.