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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-38613" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-06-19T13:56:14.083Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:20:09.380Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-38613" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-38613.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38613" title: "m68k: Fix spinlock race in kernel thread creation" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nm68k: Fix spinlock race in kernel thread creation\n\nContext switching does take care to retain the correct lock owner across\nthe switch from 'prev' to 'next' tasks. This does rely on interrupts\nremaining disabled for the entire duration of the switch.\n\nThis condition is guaranteed for normal process creation and context\nswitching between already running processes, because both 'prev' and\n'next' already have interrupts disabled in their saved copies of the\nstatus register.\n\nThe situation is different for newly created kernel threads. The status\nregister is set to PS_S in copy_thread(), which does leave the IPL at 0.\nUpon restoring the 'next' thread's status register in switch_to() aka\nresume(), interrupts then become enabled prematurely. resume() then\nreturns via ret_from_kernel_thread() and schedule_tail() where run queue\nlock is released (see finish_task_switch() and finish_lock_switch()).\n\nA timer interrupt calling scheduler_tick() before the lock is released\nin finish_task_switch() will find the lock already taken, with the\ncurrent task as lock owner. This causes a spinlock recursion warning as\nreported by Guenter Roeck.\n\nAs far as I can ascertain, this race has been opened in commit\n533e6903bea0 (\"m68k: split ret_from_fork(), simplify kernel_thread()\")\nbut I haven't done a detailed study of kernel history so it may well\npredate that commit.\n\nInterrupts cannot be disabled in the saved status register copy for\nkernel threads (init will complain about interrupts disabled when\nfinally starting user space). Disable interrupts temporarily when\nswitching the tasks' register sets in resume().\n\nNote that a simple oriw 0x700,%sr after restoring sr is not enough here\n- this leaves enough of a race for the 'spinlock recursion' warning to\nstill be observed.\n\nTested on ARAnyM and qemu (Quadra 800 emulation)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"533e6903bea0440816a0f517b0845ccea4cc7917","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a8d1d95302c7d52c6ac8fa5cb4a6948ae0d3a14"},{"version":"533e6903bea0440816a0f517b0845ccea4cc7917","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5213cc01d0464c011fdc09f318705603ed3a746b"},{"version":"533e6903bea0440816a0f517b0845ccea4cc7917","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4eeffecc8e3cce25bb559502c2fd94a948bcde82"},{"version":"533e6903bea0440816a0f517b0845ccea4cc7917","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77b2b67a0f8bce260c53907e5749d61466d90c87"},{"version":"533e6903bea0440816a0f517b0845ccea4cc7917","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d9ae1253535f6e85a016e09c25ecbe6f7f59ef0"},{"version":"533e6903bea0440816a0f517b0845ccea4cc7917","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f3baf0f4f92af32943ebf27b960e0552c6c082fd"},{"version":"533e6903bea0440816a0f517b0845ccea4cc7917","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f1d4274a84c069be0f6098ab10c3443fc1f7134c"},{"version":"533e6903bea0440816a0f517b0845ccea4cc7917","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"95f00caf767b5968c2c51083957b38be4748a78a"},{"version":"533e6903bea0440816a0f517b0845ccea4cc7917","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da89ce46f02470ef08f0f580755d14d547da59ed"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.7"},{"version":"4.19.316","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.278","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.219","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.161","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.8.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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