Bug 2373575 (CVE-2022-50103) - CVE-2022-50103 kernel: sched, cpuset: Fix dl_cpu_busy() panic due to empty cs->cpus_allowed
Summary: CVE-2022-50103 kernel: sched, cpuset: Fix dl_cpu_busy() panic due to empty cs...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50103
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-06-18 12:08 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-19 10:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:08:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sched, cpuset: Fix dl_cpu_busy() panic due to empty cs->cpus_allowed

With cgroup v2, the cpuset's cpus_allowed mask can be empty indicating
that the cpuset will just use the effective CPUs of its parent. So
cpuset_can_attach() can call task_can_attach() with an empty mask.
This can lead to cpumask_any_and() returns nr_cpu_ids causing the call
to dl_bw_of() to crash due to percpu value access of an out of bound
CPU value. For example:

	[80468.182258] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffff8b6648b0
	  :
	[80468.191019] RIP: 0010:dl_cpu_busy+0x30/0x2b0
	  :
	[80468.207946] Call Trace:
	[80468.208947]  cpuset_can_attach+0xa0/0x140
	[80468.209953]  cgroup_migrate_execute+0x8c/0x490
	[80468.210931]  cgroup_update_dfl_csses+0x254/0x270
	[80468.211898]  cgroup_subtree_control_write+0x322/0x400
	[80468.212854]  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x11c/0x1b0
	[80468.213777]  new_sync_write+0x11f/0x1b0
	[80468.214689]  vfs_write+0x1eb/0x280
	[80468.215592]  ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
	[80468.216463]  do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x80
	[80468.224287]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Fix that by using effective_cpus instead. For cgroup v1, effective_cpus
is the same as cpus_allowed. For v2, effective_cpus is the real cpumask
to be used by tasks within the cpuset anyway.

Also update task_can_attach()'s 2nd argument name to cs_effective_cpus to
reflect the change. In addition, a check is added to task_can_attach()
to guard against the possibility that cpumask_any_and() may return a
value >= nr_cpu_ids.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 10:09:21 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061804-CVE-2022-50103-01db@gregkh/T


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