Description

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

closures: Change BUG_ON() to WARN_ON()

If a BUG_ON() can be hit in the wild, it shouldn't be a BUG_ON()

For reference, this has popped up once in the CI, and we'll need more
info to debug it:

03240 ------------[ cut here ]------------
03240 kernel BUG at lib/closure.c:21!
03240 kernel BUG at lib/closure.c:21!
03240 Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
03240 Modules linked in:
03240 CPU: 15 PID: 40534 Comm: kworker/u80:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc4-ktest-ga56da69799bd #25570
03240 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
03240 Workqueue: btree_update btree_interior_update_work
03240 pstate: 00001005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT +SSBS BTYPE=--)
03240 pc : closure_put+0x224/0x2a0
03240 lr : closure_put+0x24/0x2a0
03240 sp : ffff0000d12071c0
03240 x29: ffff0000d12071c0 x28: dfff800000000000 x27: ffff0000d1207360
03240 x26: 0000000000000040 x25: 0000000000000040 x24: 0000000000000040
03240 x23: ffff0000c1f20180 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff0000c1f20168
03240 x20: 0000000040000000 x19: ffff0000c1f20140 x18: 0000000000000001
03240 x17: 0000000000003aa0 x16: 0000000000003ad0 x15: 1fffe0001c326974
03240 x14: 0000000000000a1e x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 1fffe000183e402d
03240 x11: ffff6000183e402d x10: dfff800000000000 x9 : ffff6000183e402e
03240 x8 : 0000000000000001 x7 : 00009fffe7c1bfd3 x6 : ffff0000c1f2016b
03240 x5 : ffff0000c1f20168 x4 : ffff6000183e402e x3 : ffff800081391954
03240 x2 : 00000000...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-42252

CVSS Base Severity: LOW

CVSS Base Score: 0.0

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.06% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecb4aaa658da760fb83afd79cc5fd4360aa60635
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d85f2ab79d5918a66539ebf046c099f7448db8d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/339b84ab6b1d66900c27bd999271cb2ae40ce812

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