Bug 2339135 (CVE-2025-21657)

Summary: CVE-2025-21657 kernel: sched_ext: Replace rq_lock() to raw_spin_rq_lock() in scx_ops_bypass()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-01-21 13:02:38 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sched_ext: Replace rq_lock() to raw_spin_rq_lock() in scx_ops_bypass()

scx_ops_bypass() iterates all CPUs to re-enqueue all the scx tasks.
For each CPU, it acquires a lock using rq_lock() regardless of whether
a CPU is offline or the CPU is currently running a task in a higher
scheduler class (e.g., deadline). The rq_lock() is supposed to be used
for online CPUs, and the use of rq_lock() may trigger an unnecessary
warning in rq_pin_lock(). Therefore, replace rq_lock() to
raw_spin_rq_lock() in scx_ops_bypass().

Without this change, we observe the following warning:

===== START =====
[    6.615205] rq->balance_callback && rq->balance_callback != &balance_push_callback
[    6.615208] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/sched.h:1730 __schedule+0x1130/0x1c90
=====  END  =====
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2025-01-21 16:57:20 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025012131-CVE-2025-21657-5f7d@gregkh/T