CVE-2024-50019 — kthread: unpark only parked kthread

Affected: Linux

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

kthread: unpark only parked kthread

Calling into kthread unparking unconditionally is mostly harmless when the kthread is already unparked. The wake up is then simply ignored because the target is not in TASK_PARKED state.

However if the kthread is per CPU, the wake up is preceded by a call to kthread_bind() which expects the task to be inactive and in TASK_PARKED state, which obviously isn't the case if it is unparked.

As a result, calling kthread_stop() on an unparked per-cpu kthread triggers such a warning:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at kernel/kthread.c:525 __kthread_bind_mask kernel/kthread.c:525 <TASK> kthread_stop+0x17a/0x630 kernel/kthread.c:707 destroy_workqueue+0x136/0xc40 kernel/workqueue.c:5810 wg_destruct+0x1e2/0x2e0 drivers/net/wireguard/device.c:257 netdev_run_todo+0xe1a/0x1000 net/core/dev.c:10693 default_device_exit_batch+0xa14/0xa90 net/core/dev.c:11769 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:178 [inline] cleanup_net+0x89d/0xcc0 net/core/net_namespace.c:640 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3231 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xa2c/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3312 worker_thread+0x86d/0xd70 kernel/workqueue.c:3393 kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244 </TASK>

Fix this with skipping unecessary unparking while stopping a kthread.

USN-7166-1 — linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux…

Affected: Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-gcp-5.15, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-ibm-5.15, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-oracle-5.15, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gke, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gkeop, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-ibm, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-kvm and 4 more

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - ACPI drivers; - Drivers core; - ATA over ethernet (AOE) driver; - TPM device driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework; - EFI core; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - I2C subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device core drivers; - Mailbox framework; - Media drivers; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; - STMicroelectronics network drivers; - NTB driver; - Virtio pmem driver; - PCI subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - S/390 drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - SPI subsystem; - Thermal drivers; - USB Device Class drivers; - USB Type-C Port Controller Manager driver; - VFIO drivers; - Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem; - Framebuffer layer; - 9P distributed file system; - BTRFS file system; - Ceph distributed file system; - File systems infrastructure; - Ext4 file system; - F2FS file system; - GFS2 file system; - JFS file system; - Network file system (NFS) client; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - NILFS2 file system; - Network file system (NFS)…

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CVE-2024-50019 — kthread: unpark only parked kthread

USN-7166-1 — linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux…