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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-46704"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-09-13T06:27:31.822Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:34:46.394Z"
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-2024-46704"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-46704.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-46704"
title: "workqueue: Fix spruious data race in __flush_work()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nworkqueue: Fix spruious data race in __flush_work()\n\nWhen flushing a work item for cancellation, __flush_work() knows that it\nexclusively owns the work item through its PENDING bit. 134874e2eee9\n(\"workqueue: Allow cancel_work_sync() and disable_work() from atomic\ncontexts on BH work items\") added a read of @work-\u003edata to determine whether\nto use busy wait for BH work items that are being canceled. While the read\nis safe when @from_cancel, @work-\u003edata was read before testing @from_cancel\nto simplify code structure:\n\n\tdata = *work_data_bits(work);\n\tif (from_cancel &&\n\t    !WARN_ON_ONCE(data & WORK_STRUCT_PWQ) && (data & WORK_OFFQ_BH)) {\n\nWhile the read data was never used if !@from_cancel, this could trigger\nKCSAN data race detection spuriously:\n\n  ==================================================================\n  BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __flush_work / __flush_work\n\n  write to 0xffff8881223aa3e8 of 8 bytes by task 3998 on cpu 0:\n   instrument_write include/linux/instrumented.h:41 [inline]\n   ___set_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:28 [inline]\n   insert_wq_barrier kernel/workqueue.c:3790 [inline]\n   start_flush_work kernel/workqueue.c:4142 [inline]\n   __flush_work+0x30b/0x570 kernel/workqueue.c:4178\n   flush_work kernel/workqueue.c:4229 [inline]\n   ...\n\n  read to 0xffff8881223aa3e8 of 8 bytes by task 50 on cpu 1:\n   __flush_work+0x42a/0x570 kernel/workqueue.c:4188\n   flush_work kernel/workqueue.c:4229 [inline]\n   flush_delayed_work+0x66/0x70 kernel/workqueue.c:4251\n   ...\n\n  value changed: 0x0000000000400000 -\u003e 0xffff88810006c00d\n\nReorganize the code so that @from_cancel is tested before @work-\u003edata is\naccessed. The only problem is triggering KCSAN detection spuriously. This\nshouldn't need READ_ONCE() or other access qualifiers.\n\nNo functional changes."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"134874e2eee9380c2700411d4844cbc29297bc01","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"91d09642127a32fde231face2ff489af70eef316"},{"version":"134874e2eee9380c2700411d4844cbc29297bc01","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8bc35475ef1a23b0e224f3242eb11c76cab0ea88"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.10.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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