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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-57939

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 1/21/2025 8:15:07 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

riscv: Fix sleeping in invalid context in die()

die() can be called in exception handler, and therefore cannot sleep.
However, die() takes spinlock_t which can sleep with PREEMPT_RT enabled.
That causes the following warning:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 285, name: mutex
preempt_count: 110001, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 285 Comm: mutex Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-00022-ge19049cf7d56-dirty #234
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
Call Trace:
    dump_backtrace+0x1c/0x24
    show_stack+0x2c/0x38
    dump_stack_lvl+0x5a/0x72
    dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
    __might_resched+0x130/0x13a
    rt_spin_lock+0x2a/0x5c
    die+0x24/0x112
    do_trap_insn_illegal+0xa0/0xea
    _new_vmalloc_restore_context_a0+0xcc/0xd8
Oops - illegal instruction [#1]

Switch to use raw_spinlock_t, which does not sleep even with PREEMPT_RT
enabled.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a97f4118ac07cfdc316433f385dbdc12af5025e
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76ab0afcdbe8c9685b589016ee1c0e25fe596707
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c21df31fc2a4afc02a6e56511364e9e793ea92ec
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f48f060a4b36b5e96628f6c3fb1540f1e8dedb69