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nvd416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67NVD:CVE-2024-35895
HistoryMay 19, 2024 - 9:15 a.m.

CVE-2024-35895

2024-05-1909:15:10
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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3
linux kernel
lock inversion
deadlock

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.2%

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

bpf, sockmap: Prevent lock inversion deadlock in map delete elem

syzkaller started using corpuses where a BPF tracing program deletes
elements from a sockmap/sockhash map. Because BPF tracing programs can be
invoked from any interrupt context, locks taken during a map_delete_elem
operation must be hardirq-safe. Otherwise a deadlock due to lock inversion
is possible, as reported by lockdep:

   CPU0                    CPU1
   ----                    ----

lock(&htab->buckets[i].lock);
local_irq_disable();
lock(&host->lock);
lock(&htab->buckets[i].lock);
<Interrupt>
lock(&host->lock);

Locks in sockmap are hardirq-unsafe by design. We expects elements to be
deleted from sockmap/sockhash only in task (normal) context with interrupts
enabled, or in softirq context.

Detect when map_delete_elem operation is invoked from a context which is
not hardirq-unsafe, that is interrupts are disabled, and bail out with an
error.

Note that map updates are not affected by this issue. BPF verifier does not
allow updating sockmap/sockhash from a BPF tracing program today.

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.2%