CVE-2024-58042

rhashtable: Fix potential deadlock by moving schedule_work outside lock

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 27, 2025

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Description

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

rhashtable: Fix potential deadlock by moving schedule_work outside lock

Move the hash table growth check and work scheduling outside the rht lock to prevent a possible circular locking dependency.

The original implementation could trigger a lockdep warning due to a potential deadlock scenario involving nested locks between rhashtable bucket, rq lock, and dsq lock. By relocating the growth check and work scheduling after releasing the rth lock, we break this potential deadlock chain.

This change expands the flexibility of rhashtable by removing restrictive locking that previously limited its use in scheduler and workqueue contexts.

Import to say that this calls rht_grow_above_75(), which reads from struct rhashtable without holding the lock, if this is a problem, we can move the check to the lock, and schedule the workqueue after the lock.

Modified so that atomic_inc is also moved outside of the bucket lock along with the growth above 75% check.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f to before eb2e58484b838fb4e777ee9721bb9e20e6ca971dAffected
  • f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f to before ced8ce3c83a7150c5f5d371a8c332d7bc7f9b66dAffected
  • f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f to before e1d3422c95f003eba241c176adfe593c33e8a8f6Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.12Affected
  • before 6.12Not affected
  • 6.12.13 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13.2 through 6.13.*Not affected
  • 6.14 and laterNot affected

References

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