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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-43889

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 8/26/2024 7:15:03 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

padata: Fix possible divide-by-0 panic in padata_mt_helper()

We are hit with a not easily reproducible divide-by-0 panic in padata.c at
bootup time.

  [   10.017908] Oops: divide error: 0000 1 PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
  [   10.017908] CPU: 26 PID: 2627 Comm: kworker/u1666:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-15.el10.x86_64 #1
  [   10.017908] Hardware name: Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 [7X12CTO1WW]/[7X12CTO1WW], BIOS [PSE140J-2.30] 07/20/2021
  [   10.017908] Workqueue: events_unbound padata_mt_helper
  [   10.017908] RIP: 0010:padata_mt_helper+0x39/0xb0
    :
  [   10.017963] Call Trace:
  [   10.017968]  <TASK>
  [   10.018004]  ? padata_mt_helper+0x39/0xb0
  [   10.018084]  process_one_work+0x174/0x330
  [   10.018093]  worker_thread+0x266/0x3a0
  [   10.018111]  kthread+0xcf/0x100
  [   10.018124]  ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
  [   10.018138]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
  [   10.018147]  </TASK>

Looking at the padata_mt_helper() function, the only way a divide-by-0
panic can happen is when ps->chunk_size is 0.  The way that chunk_size is
initialized in padata_do_multithreaded(), chunk_size can be 0 when the
min_chunk in the passed-in padata_mt_job structure is 0.

Fix this divide-by-0 panic by making sure that chunk_size will be at least
1 no matter what the input parameters are.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d45e1c948a8b7ed6ceddb14319af69424db730c [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f5ffd2af7274853ff91d6cd62541191d9fbd10d [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/924f788c906dccaca30acab86c7124371e1d6f2c [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a29cfcb848c31f22b4de6a531c3e1d68c9bfe09f [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab8b397d5997d8c37610252528edc54bebf9f6d3 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da0ffe84fcc1627a7dff82c80b823b94236af905 [No types assigned]