In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
locking/ww_mutex/test: Fix potential workqueue corruption In some cases
running with the test-ww_mutex code, I was seeing odd behavior where
sometimes it seemed flush_workqueue was returning before all the work
threads were finished. Often this would cause strange crashes as the
mutexes would be freed while they were being used. Looking at the code,
there is a lifetime problem as the controlling thread that spawns the work
allocates the “struct stress” structures that are passed to the workqueue
threads. Then when the workqueue threads are finished, they free the stress
struct that was passed to them. Unfortunately the workqueue work_struct
node is in the stress struct. Which means the work_struct is freed before
the work thread returns and while flush_workqueue is waiting. It seems like
a better idea to have the controlling thread both allocate and free the
stress structures, so that we can be sure we don’t corrupt the workqueue by
freeing the structure prematurely. So this patch reworks the test to do so,
and with this change I no longer see the early flush_workqueue returns.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 23.10 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 14.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
git.kernel.org/linus/bccdd808902f8c677317cec47c306e42b93b849e (6.7-rc1)
git.kernel.org/stable/c/304a2c4aad0fff887ce493e4197bf9cbaf394479
git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ed2d68b3925145f5f51c46559484881d6082f75
git.kernel.org/stable/c/bccdd808902f8c677317cec47c306e42b93b849e
git.kernel.org/stable/c/c56df79d68677cf062da1b6e3b33e74299a92dfc
git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4d37c9e6a4dbcca958dabd99216550525c7e389
git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8267cabbe1bed15ccf8b0e684c528bf8eeef715
git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcd85e3c929368076a7592b27f541e0da8b427f5
git.kernel.org/stable/c/e36407713163363e65566e7af0abe207d5f59a0c
git.kernel.org/stable/c/e89d0ed45a419c485bae999426ecf92697cbdda3
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2023-52836
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52836
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-52836
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52836