CVE: CVE-2024-56547
Published: 2024-12-27
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rcu/nocb: Fix missed RCU barrier on deoffloading

Currently, running rcutorture test with torture_type=rcu fwd_progress=8
n_barrier_cbs=8 nocbs_nthreads=8 nocbs_toggle=100 onoff_interval=60
test_boost=2, will trigger the following warning:

	WARNING: CPU: 19 PID: 100 at kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h:1061 rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload+0x292/0x2a0
	RIP: 0010:rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload+0x292/0x2a0
	 Call Trace:
	  <TASK>
	  ? __warn+0x7e/0x120
	  ? rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload+0x292/0x2a0
	  ? report_bug+0x18e/0x1a0
	  ? handle_bug+0x3d/0x70
	  ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x70
	  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
	  ? rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload+0x292/0x2a0
	  rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffload+0x70/0xa0
	  rcu_nocb_toggle+0x136/0x1c0
	  ? __pfx_rcu_nocb_toggle+0x10/0x10
	  kthread+0xd1/0x100
	  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
	  ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
	  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
	  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
	  </TASK>

CPU0                               CPU2                          CPU3
//rcu_nocb_toggle             //nocb_cb_wait                   //rcutorture

// deoffload CPU1             // process CPU1's rdp
rcu_barrier()
    rcu_segcblist_entrain()
        rcu_segcblist_add_len(1);
        // len == 2
        // enqueue barrier
        // callback to CPU1's
        // rdp->cblist
                             rcu_do_batch()
                                 // invoke CPU1's rdp->cblist
                                 // callback
                                 rcu_barrier_callback()
                                                             rcu_barrier()
                                                               mutex_lock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex);
                                                               // still see len == 2
                                                               // enqueue barrier callback
                                                               // to CPU1's rdp->cblist
                                                               rcu_segcblist_entrain()
                                                                   rcu_segcblist_add_len(1);
                                                                   // len == 3
                                 // decrement len
                                 rcu_segcblist_add_len(-2);
                             kthread_parkme()

// CPU1's rdp->cblist len == 1
// Warn because there is
// still a pending barrier
// trigger warning
WARN_ON_ONCE(rcu_segcblist_n_cbs(&rdp->cblist));
cpus_read_unlock();

                                                                // wait CPU1 to comes online and
                                                                // invoke barrier callback on
                                                                // CPU1 rdp's->cblist
                                                                wait_for_completion(&rcu_state.barrier_completion);
// deoffload CPU4
cpus_read_lock()
  rcu_barrier()
    mutex_lock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex);
    // block on barrier_mutex
    // wait rcu_barrier() on
    // CPU3 to unlock barrier_mutex
    // but CPU3 unlock barrier_mutex
    // need to wait CPU1 comes online
    // when CPU1 going online will block on cpus_write_lock

The above scenario will not only trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE(), but also
trigger a deadlock.

Thanks to nocb locking, a second racing rcu_barrier() on an offline CPU
will either observe the decremented callback counter down to 0 and spare
the callback enqueue, or rcuo will observe the new callback and keep
rdp->nocb_cb_sleep to false.

Therefore check rdp->nocb_cb_sleep before parking to make sure no
further rcu_barrier() is waiting on the rdp.
CVSS Score: 4.7 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/224b[PII_REDACTED][PII_REDACTED]d372dcb36cf5f820; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2996980e20b7a54a1869df15b3445374b850b155