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CVE-2024-56641

net/smc: initialize close_work early to avoid warning

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Descriptions

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

net/smc: initialize close_work early to avoid warning

We encountered a warning that close_work was canceled before
initialization.

WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 111103 at kernel/workqueue.c:3047 __flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0
Workqueue: events smc_lgr_terminate_work [smc]
RIP: 0010:__flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0
Call Trace:
? __wake_up_common+0x7a/0x190
? work_busy+0x80/0x80
__cancel_work_timer+0xe3/0x160
smc_close_cancel_work+0x1a/0x70 [smc]
smc_close_active_abort+0x207/0x360 [smc]
__smc_lgr_terminate.part.38+0xc8/0x180 [smc]
process_one_work+0x19e/0x340
worker_thread+0x30/0x370
? process_one_work+0x340/0x340
kthread+0x117/0x130
? __kthread_cancel_work+0x50/0x50
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

This is because when smc_close_cancel_work is triggered, e.g. the RDMA
driver is rmmod and the LGR is terminated, the conn->close_work is
flushed before initialization, resulting in WARN_ON(!work->func).

__smc_lgr_terminate | smc_connect_{rdma|ism}
-------------------------------------------------------------
| smc_conn_create
| \- smc_lgr_register_conn
for conn in lgr->conns_all |
\- smc_conn_kill |
\- smc_close_active_abort |
\- smc_close_cancel_work |
\- cancel_work_sync |
\- __flush_work |
(close_work) |
| smc_close_init
| \- INIT_WORK(&close_work)

So fix this by initializing close_work before establishing the
connection.

*Credits: N/A
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Timeline
  • 2024-12-27 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-12-27 CVE Published
  • 2024-12-27 CVE Updated
  • 2024-12-28 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
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Linux
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>= 4.12 < 6.6.66
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Linux
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>= 4.12 < 6.12.5
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Linux
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>= 4.12 < 6.13-rc2
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