CVE-2024-58042

Technical Description

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

rhashtable: Fix potential deadlock by moving schedule_work outside lock

Move the hash table growth check and work scheduling outside the

rht lock to prevent a possible circular locking dependency.

The original implementation could trigger a lockdep warning due to

a potential deadlock scenario involving nested locks between

rhashtable bucket, rq lock, and dsq lock. By relocating the

growth check and work scheduling after releasing the rth lock, we break

this potential deadlock chain.

This change expands the flexibility of rhashtable by removing

restrictive locking that previously limited its use in scheduler

and workqueue contexts.

Import to say that this calls rht_grow_above_75(), which reads from

struct rhashtable without holding the lock, if this is a problem, we can

move the check to the lock, and schedule the workqueue after the lock.

Modified so that atomic_inc is also moved outside of the bucket

lock along

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References