CVE-2024-56585 LoongArch: Fix sleeping in atomic context for PREEMPT_RT

What is CVE-2024-56585?

CVE-2024-56585 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

LoongArch: Fix sleeping in atomic context for PREEMPT_RT

Commit bab1c299f3945ffe79 ("LoongArch: Fix sleeping in atomic context in setup_tlb_handler()") changes the gfp flag from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC for alloc_pages_node(). However, for PREEMPT_RT kernels we can still get a "sleeping in atomic context" error:

[ 0.372259] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48 [ 0.372266] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1 [ 0.372268] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 [ 0.372270] RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 1 [ 0.372272] 3 locks held by swapper/1/0: [ 0.372274] #0: 900000000c9f5e60 (&pcp->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: get_page_from_freelist+0x524/0x1c60 [ 0.372294] #1: 90000000087013b8 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rt_spin_trylock+0x50/0x140 [ 0.372305] #2: 900000047fffd388 (&zone->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __rmqueue_pcplist+0x30c/0xea0 [ 0.372314] irq event stamp: 0 [ 0.372316] hardirqs last enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0 [ 0.372322] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<9000000005947320>] copy_process+0x9c0/0x26e0 [ 0.372329] softirqs last enabled at (0): [<9000000005947320>] copy_process+0x9c0/0x26e0 [ 0.372335] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0 [ 0.372341] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7+ #1891 [ 0.372346] Hardware name: Loongson Loongson-3A5000-7A1000-1w-CRB/Loongson-LS3A5000-7A1000-1w-CRB, BIOS vUDK2018-LoongArch-V2.0.0-prebeta9 10/21/2022 [ 0.372349] Stack : 0000000000000089 9000000005a0db9c 90000000071519c8 9000000100388000 [ 0.372486] 900000010038b890 0000000000000000 900000010038b898 9000000007e53788 [ 0.372492] 900000000815bcc8 900000000815bcc0 900000010038b700 0000000000000001 [ 0.372498] 0000000000000001 4b031894b9d6b725 00000000055ec000 9000000100338fc0 [ 0.372503] 00000000000000c4 0000000000000001 000000000000002d 0000000000000003 [ 0.372509] 0000000000000030 0000000000000003 00000000055ec000 0000000000000003 [ 0.372515] 900000000806d000 9000000007e53788 00000000000000b0 0000000000000004 [ 0.372521] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 900000000c9f5f10 0000000000000000 [ 0.372526] 90000000076f12d8 9000000007e53788 9000000005924778 0000000000000000 [ 0.372532] 00000000000000b0 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 0000000000070000 [ 0.372537] ... [ 0.372540] Call Trace: [ 0.372542] [<9000000005924778>] show_stack+0x38/0x180 [ 0.372548] [<90000000071519c4>] dump_stack_lvl+0x94/0xe4 [ 0.372555] [<900000000599b880>] __might_resched+0x1a0/0x260 [ 0.372561] [<90000000071675cc>] rt_spin_lock+0x4c/0x140 [ 0.372565] [<9000000005cbb768>] __rmqueue_pcplist+0x308/0xea0 [ 0.372570] [<9000000005cbed84>] get_page_from_freelist+0x564/0x1c60 [ 0.372575] [<9000000005cc0d98>] __alloc_pages_noprof+0x218/0x1820 [ 0.372580] [<900000000593b36c>] tlb_init+0x1ac/0x298 [ 0.372585] [<9000000005924b74>] per_cpu_trap_init+0x114/0x140 [ 0.372589] [<9000000005921964>] cpu_probe+0x4e4/0xa60 [ 0.372592] [<9000000005934874>] start_secondary+0x34/0xc0 [ 0.372599] [<900000000715615c>] smpboot_entry+0x64/0x6c

This is because in PREEMPT_RT kernels normal spinlocks are replaced by rt spinlocks and rt_spin_lock() will cause sleeping. Fix it by disabling NUMA optimization completely for PREEMPT_RT kernels.

Weakness: CWE-667

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56585?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-56585?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-56585 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56585 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-56585, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56585, GHSA-2ggg-8w3g-3x2x, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56585.