Description

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

tracing: Ensure visibility when inserting an element into tracing_map

Running the following two commands in parallel on a multi-processor
AArch64 machine can sporadically produce an unexpected warning about
duplicate histogram entries:

$ while true; do
echo hist:key=id.syscall:val=hitcount > \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/hist
sleep 0.001
done
$ stress-ng --sysbadaddr $(nproc)

The warning looks as follows:

[ 2911.172474] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2911.173111] Duplicates detected: 1
[ 2911.173574] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 12247 at kernel/trace/tracing_map.c:983 tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.174702] Modules linked in: iscsi_ibft(E) iscsi_boot_sysfs(E) rfkill(E) af_packet(E) nls_iso8859_1(E) nls_cp437(E) vfat(E) fat(E) ena(E) tiny_power_button(E) qemu_fw_cfg(E) button(E) fuse(E) efi_pstore(E) ip_tables(E) x_tables(E) xfs(E) libcrc32c(E) aes_ce_blk(E) aes_ce_cipher(E) crct10dif_ce(E) polyval_ce(E) polyval_generic(E) ghash_ce(E) gf128mul(E) sm4_ce_gcm(E) sm4_ce_ccm(E) sm4_ce(E) sm4_ce_cipher(E) sm4(E) sm3_ce(E) sm3(E) sha3_ce(E) sha512_ce(E) sha512_arm64(E) sha2_ce(E) sha256_arm64(E) nvme(E) sha1_ce(E) nvme_core(E) nvme_auth(E) t10_pi(E) sg(E) scsi_mod(E) scsi_common(E) efivarfs(E)
[ 2911.174738] Unloaded tainted modules: cppc_cpufreq(E):1
[ 2911.180985] CPU: 2 PI...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26645

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/5022b331c041e8c54b9a6a3251579bd1e8c0fc0b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dad9b28f675ed99b4dec261db2a397efeb80b74c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef70dfa0b1e5084f32635156c9a5c795352ad860
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aef1cb00856ccfd614467cfb50b791278992e177
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4f7e696db0274ff560482cc52eddbf0551d4b7a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1eebe76e187dbe11ca299f8dbb6e45d5b1889e7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf4aeff7da85c3becd39fb73bac94122331c30fb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b44760609e9eaafc9d234a6883d042fc21132a7

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