Bug 2334558 (CVE-2024-56641)

Summary: CVE-2024-56641 kernel: net/smc: initialize close_work early to avoid warning
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 16:03:28 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/smc: initialize close_work early to avoid warning

We encountered a warning that close_work was canceled before
initialization.

  WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 111103 at kernel/workqueue.c:3047 __flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0
  Workqueue: events smc_lgr_terminate_work [smc]
  RIP: 0010:__flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0
  Call Trace:
   ? __wake_up_common+0x7a/0x190
   ? work_busy+0x80/0x80
   __cancel_work_timer+0xe3/0x160
   smc_close_cancel_work+0x1a/0x70 [smc]
   smc_close_active_abort+0x207/0x360 [smc]
   __smc_lgr_terminate.part.38+0xc8/0x180 [smc]
   process_one_work+0x19e/0x340
   worker_thread+0x30/0x370
   ? process_one_work+0x340/0x340
   kthread+0x117/0x130
   ? __kthread_cancel_work+0x50/0x50
   ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

This is because when smc_close_cancel_work is triggered, e.g. the RDMA
driver is rmmod and the LGR is terminated, the conn->close_work is
flushed before initialization, resulting in WARN_ON(!work->func).

__smc_lgr_terminate             | smc_connect_{rdma|ism}
-------------------------------------------------------------
                                | smc_conn_create
				| \- smc_lgr_register_conn
for conn in lgr->conns_all      |
\- smc_conn_kill                |
   \- smc_close_active_abort    |
      \- smc_close_cancel_work  |
         \- cancel_work_sync    |
            \- __flush_work     |
	         (close_work)   |
	                        | smc_close_init
	                        | \- INIT_WORK(&close_work)

So fix this by initializing close_work before establishing the
connection.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-28 02:09:00 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122736-CVE-2024-56641-5492@gregkh/T