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CVE-2024-57891

MEDIUM · 5.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-01-15
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 6.12.9 or later.
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57/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched_ext: Fix invalid irq restore in scx_ops_bypass() While adding outer irqsave/restore locking, 0e7ffff1b811 ("scx: Fix raciness in scx_ops_bypass()") forgot to convert an inner rq_unlock_irqrestore() to rq_unlock() which could re-enable IRQ prematurely leading to the following warning: raw_local_irq_restore() called with IRQs enabled WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 96 at kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c:10 warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x30/0x40 ... Sched_ext: create_dsq (enabling) pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x30/0x40 lr : warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x30/0x40 ... Call trace: warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x30/0x40 (P) warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x30/0x40 (L) scx_ops_bypass+0x224/0x3b8 scx_ops_enable.isra.0+0x2c8/0xaa8 bpf_scx_reg+0x18/0x30 ... irq event stamp: 33739 hardirqs last enabled at (33739): [<ffff8000800b699c>] scx_ops_bypass+0x174/0x3b8 hardirqs last disabled at (33738): [<ffff800080d48ad4>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xb4/0xd8 Drop the stray _irqrestore().

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
Affected:>= 6.12.1, < 6.12.9= 6.12= 6.13

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

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

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 6.12.9 or later
Fixed in 6.12.9
Vendor patch git.kernel.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

Linux kernel 6.12.9 or later (or 6.13.y with the fix backported)

  1. Apply the vendor patch commit 18b2093f4598d8ee67a8153badc93f0fa7686b8a, which changes rq_unlock_irqrestore() to rq_unlock() in the scx_ops_bypass() function to prevent premature IRQ re-enabling

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