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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-42268

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/17/2024 5:15:08 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mlx5: Fix missing lock on sync reset reload

On sync reset reload work, when remote host updates devlink on reload
actions performed on that host, it misses taking devlink lock before
calling devlink_remote_reload_actions_performed() which results in
triggering lock assert like the following:

WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 1164 at net/devlink/core.c:261 devl_assert_locked+0x3e/0x50
…
 CPU: 4 PID: 1164 Comm: kworker/u96:6 Tainted: G S      W          6.10.0-rc2+ #116
 Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-2028TP-DECTR/X10DRT-PT, BIOS 2.0 12/18/2015
 Workqueue: mlx5_fw_reset_events mlx5_sync_reset_reload_work [mlx5_core]
 RIP: 0010:devl_assert_locked+0x3e/0x50
…
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? __warn+0xa4/0x210
  ? devl_assert_locked+0x3e/0x50
  ? report_bug+0x160/0x280
  ? handle_bug+0x3f/0x80
  ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x40
  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
  ? devl_assert_locked+0x3e/0x50
  devlink_notify+0x88/0x2b0
  ? mlx5_attach_device+0x20c/0x230 [mlx5_core]
  ? __pfx_devlink_notify+0x10/0x10
  ? process_one_work+0x4b6/0xbb0
  process_one_work+0x4b6/0xbb0
[…]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/091268f3c27a5b6d7858a3bb2a0dbcc9cd26ddb5 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/572f9caa9e7295f8c8822e4122c7ae8f1c412ff9 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d07d1d40aabfd61bab21115639bd4f641db6002 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98884e89c90d077f6fe6ba18e6cf6f914642f04e [No types assigned]