Bug 2365036 (CVE-2025-37802)

Summary: CVE-2025-37802 kernel: ksmbd: fix WARNING "do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING"
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-08 07:02:38 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ksmbd: fix WARNING "do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING"

wait_event_timeout() will set the state of the current
task to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, before doing the condition check. This
means that ksmbd_durable_scavenger_alive() will try to acquire the mutex
while already in a sleeping state. The scheduler warns us by giving
the following warning:

do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=2 set at
 [<0000000061515a6f>] prepare_to_wait_event+0x9f/0x6c0
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 4147 at kernel/sched/core.c:10099 __might_sleep+0x12f/0x160

mutex lock is not needed in ksmbd_durable_scavenger_alive().

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-08 09:41:58 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050814-CVE-2025-37802-0f78@gregkh/T