s390/entry: Mark IRQ entries to fix stack depot warnings (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-57838
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 12 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/entry: Mark IRQ entries to fix stack depot warnings The stack depot filters out everything outside of the top interrupt context as an uninteresting or irrelevant part of the stack traces. This helps with stack trace de-duplication, avoiding an explosion of saved stack traces that share the same IRQ context code path but originate from different randomly interrupted points, eventually exhausting the stack depot. Filtering uses in_irqentry_text() to identify functions within the .irqentry.text and .softirqentry.text sections, which then become the last stack trace entries being saved. While __do_softirq() is placed into the .softirqentry.text section by common code, populating .irqentry.text is architecture-specific. Currently, the .irqentry.text section on s390 is empty, which prevents stack depot filtering and de-duplication and could result in warnings like: Stack depot reached limit capacity WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 286113 at lib/stackdepot.c:252 depot_alloc_stack+0x39a/0x3c8 with PREEMPT and KASAN enabled. Fix this by moving the IO/EXT interrupt handlers from .kprobes.text into the .irqentry.text section and updating the kprobes blacklist to include the .irqentry.text section. This is done only for asynchronous interrupts and explicitly not for program checks, which are synchronous and where the context beyond the program check is important to preserve. Despite machine checks being somewhat in between, they are extremely rare, and preserving context when possible is also of value. SVCs and Restart Interrupts are not relevant, one being always at the boundary to user space and the other being a one-time thing. IRQ entries filtering is also optionally used in ftrace function graph, where the same logic applies.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-668 — Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected e940066089490efde86abc519593be84362f4e53 < 5bb7a2c3afcf8732dc65ea49c09147b07da1d993 ; affected e940066089490efde86abc519593be84362f4e53 < 1af22528fee8072b7adc007b8ca49cc4ea62689e ; affected e940066089490efde86abc519593be84362f4e53 < 473ffae3030188f1c6b80e1b3631a26b4adf7b32 ; affected e940066089490efde86abc519593be84362f4e53 < 45c9f2b856a075a34873d00788d2e8a250c1effd
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.17 ; unaffected 0 < 5.17 ; unaffected 6.1.120 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.64 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.4 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.13 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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