linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-52831: cpu/hotplug: Don't offline the last non-isolated CPU

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Message-ID: <2024052108-CVE-2023-52831-ce31@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:32:07 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-52831: cpu/hotplug: Don't offline the last non-isolated CPU

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cpu/hotplug: Don't offline the last non-isolated CPU

If a system has isolated CPUs via the "isolcpus=" command line parameter,
then an attempt to offline the last housekeeping CPU will result in a
WARN_ON() when rebuilding the scheduler domains and a subsequent panic due
to and unhandled empty CPU mas in partition_sched_domains_locked().

cpuset_hotplug_workfn()
  rebuild_sched_domains_locked()
    ndoms = generate_sched_domains(&doms, &attr);
      cpumask_and(doms[0], top_cpuset.effective_cpus, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_DOMAIN));

Thus results in an empty CPU mask which triggers the warning and then the
subsequent crash:

WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 80 at kernel/sched/topology.c:2366 build_sched_domains+0x120c/0x1408
Call trace:
 build_sched_domains+0x120c/0x1408
 partition_sched_domains_locked+0x234/0x880
 rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x37c/0x798
 rebuild_sched_domains+0x30/0x58
 cpuset_hotplug_workfn+0x2a8/0x930

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffe80027ab37080
 partition_sched_domains_locked+0x318/0x880
 rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x37c/0x798

Aside of the resulting crash, it does not make any sense to offline the last
last housekeeping CPU.

Prevent this by masking out the non-housekeeping CPUs when selecting a
target CPU for initiating the CPU unplug operation via the work queue.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52831 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 6.1.64 with commit 3410b7023547
	Fixed in 6.5.13 with commit 335a47ed71e3
	Fixed in 6.6.3 with commit 3073f6df783d
	Fixed in 6.7 with commit 38685e2a0476

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-52831
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	kernel/cpu.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3410b702354702b500bde10e3cc1f9db8731d908
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/335a47ed71e332c82339d1aec0c7f6caccfcda13
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3073f6df783d9d75f7f69f73e16c7ef85d6cfb63
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38685e2a0476127db766f81b1c06019ddc4c9ffa