Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity
Commit 8f9ea86fdf99b added some logic to sched_setaffinity that included a WARN when a per-task affinity assignment races with a cpuset update.
Specifically, we can have a race where a cpuset update results in the task affinity no longer being a subset of the cpuset. That's fine; we have a fallback to instead use the cpuset mask. However, we have a WARN set up that will trigger if the cpuset mask has no overlap at all with the requested task affinity. This shouldn't be a warning condition; its trivial to create this condition.
Reproduced the warning by the following setup:
- $PID inside a cpuset cgroup - another thread repeatedly switching the cpuset cpus from 1-2 to just 1 - another thread repeatedly setting the $PID affinity (via taskset) to 2
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HAffected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | >= 8f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4, < d35130036d327b6c175d95db9ea8d64e1abd4a1b; >= 8f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4, < 5c3fb75f538cfcb886f6dfeb497d99fc2f263ee6; >= 8f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4, < 70ee7947a29029736a1a06c73a48ff37674a851b |
| Linux | Linux | 6.2 |
References
Timeline
- Published
- Jan 11, 2025
- Last modified
- Oct 21, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified