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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-50140"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-11-07T09:31:17.379Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:46:13.274Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
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-2024-50140"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50140.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50140"
title: "sched/core: Disable page allocation in task_tick_mm_cid()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched/core: Disable page allocation in task_tick_mm_cid()\n\nWith KASAN and PREEMPT_RT enabled, calling task_work_add() in\ntask_tick_mm_cid() may cause the following splat.\n\n[   63.696416] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48\n[   63.696416] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 610, name: modprobe\n[   63.696416] preempt_count: 10001, expected: 0\n[   63.696416] RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 1\n\nThis problem is caused by the following call trace.\n\n  sched_tick() [ acquire rq-\u003e__lock ]\n   -\u003e task_tick_mm_cid()\n    -\u003e task_work_add()\n     -\u003e __kasan_record_aux_stack()\n      -\u003e kasan_save_stack()\n       -\u003e stack_depot_save_flags()\n        -\u003e alloc_pages_mpol_noprof()\n         -\u003e __alloc_pages_noprof()\n\t  -\u003e get_page_from_freelist()\n\t   -\u003e rmqueue()\n\t    -\u003e rmqueue_pcplist()\n\t     -\u003e __rmqueue_pcplist()\n\t      -\u003e rmqueue_bulk()\n\t       -\u003e rt_spin_lock()\n\nThe rq lock is a raw_spinlock_t. We can't sleep while holding\nit. IOW, we can't call alloc_pages() in stack_depot_save_flags().\n\nThe task_tick_mm_cid() function with its task_work_add() call was\nintroduced by commit 223baf9d17f2 (\"sched: Fix performance regression\nintroduced by mm_cid\") in v6.4 kernel.\n\nFortunately, there is a kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() variant that\ncalls stack_depot_save_flags() while not allowing it to allocate\nnew pages.  To allow task_tick_mm_cid() to use task_work without\npage allocation, a new TWAF_NO_ALLOC flag is added to enable calling\nkasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() instead of kasan_record_aux_stack()\nif set. The task_tick_mm_cid() function is modified to add this new flag.\n\nThe possible downside is the missing stack trace in a KASAN report due\nto new page allocation required when task_work_add_noallloc() is called\nwhich should be rare."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"223baf9d17f25e2608dbdff7232c095c1e612268","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"509c29d0d26f68a6f6d0a05cb1a89725237e2b87"},{"version":"223baf9d17f25e2608dbdff7232c095c1e612268","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce0241ef83eed55f675376e8a3605d23de53d875"},{"version":"223baf9d17f25e2608dbdff7232c095c1e612268","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73ab05aa46b02d96509cb029a8d04fca7bbde8c7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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