Description

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

SUNRPC: Fix a suspicious RCU usage warning

I received the following warning while running cthon against an ontap
server running pNFS:

[ 57.202521] =============================
[ 57.202522] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[ 57.202523] 6.7.0-rc3-g2cc14f52aeb7 #41492 Not tainted
[ 57.202525] -----------------------------
[ 57.202525] net/sunrpc/xprtmultipath.c:349 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
[ 57.202527]
other info that might help us debug this:

[ 57.202528]
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
[ 57.202529] no locks held by test5/3567.
[ 57.202530]
stack backtrace:
[ 57.202532] CPU: 0 PID: 3567 Comm: test5 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc3-g2cc14f52aeb7 #41492 5b09971b4965c0aceba19f3eea324a4a806e227e
[ 57.202534] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
[ 57.202536] Call Trace:
[ 57.202537]
[ 57.202540] dump_stack_lvl+0x77/0xb0
[ 57.202551] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x154/0x1a0
[ 57.202556] rpc_xprt_switch_has_addr+0x17c/0x190 [sunrpc ebe02571b9a8ceebf7d98e71675af20c19bdb1f6]
[ 57.202596] rpc_clnt_setup_test_and_add_xprt+0x50/0x180 [sunrpc ebe02571b9a8ceebf7d98e71675af20c19bdb1f6]
[ 57.202621] ? rpc_clnt_add_xprt+0x254/0x300 [sunrpc ebe02571b9a8ceebf7d98e71675af20c19bdb1f6]
[ 57.202646] rpc_clnt_add_xprt+0x27a/0x300 [sunrpc ebe02571b9a8ceebf7d98e71675af20c19bdb1f6]
[ 57.202671]...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-52623

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 15.26% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fece80a2a6718ed58487ce397285bb1b83a3e54e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a96d85bf196c170dcf1b47a82e9bb97cca69aa6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c430e6bb43955c6bf573665fcebf31694925b9f7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8cf4dabbdcb8bef85335b0ed7ad5b25fd82ff56
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8ca3e73301e23e8c0ac0ce2e6bac4545cd776e0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69c7eeb4f622c2a28da965f970f982db171f3dc6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f860c8407470baff2beb9982ad6b172c94f1d0a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31b62908693c90d4d07db597e685d9f25a120073

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