Description

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

afs: Fix lock recursion

afs_wake_up_async_call() can incur lock recursion. The problem is that it
is called from AF_RXRPC whilst holding the ->notify_lock, but it tries to
take a ref on the afs_call struct in order to pass it to a work queue - but
if the afs_call is already queued, we then have an extraneous ref that must
be put... calling afs_put_call() may call back down into AF_RXRPC through
rxrpc_kernel_shutdown_call(), however, which might try taking the
->notify_lock again.

This case isn't very common, however, so defer it to a workqueue. The oops
looks something like:

BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, krxrpcio/7001/1646
lock: 0xffff888141399b30, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: krxrpcio/7001/1646, .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1646 Comm: krxrpcio/7001 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2-build3+ #4351
Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x47/0x70
do_raw_spin_lock+0x3c/0x90
rxrpc_kernel_shutdown_call+0x83/0xb0
afs_put_call+0xd7/0x180
rxrpc_notify_socket+0xa0/0x190
rxrpc_input_split_jumbo+0x198/0x1d0
rxrpc_input_data+0x14b/0x1e0
? rxrpc_input_call_packet+0xc2/0x1f0
rxrpc_input_call_event+0xad/0x6b0
rxrpc_input_packet_on_conn+0x1e1/0x210
rxrpc_input_packet+0x3f2/0x4d0
rxrpc_io_thread+0x243/0x410
? __pfx_rxrpc_io_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xcf/0xe0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x24/0x40
?...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-53090

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.01% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 1.45% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53090
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7cbf81df996b1eae2dee8deb6df08e2eba78661
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/610a79ffea02102899a1373fe226d949944a7ed6

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