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CVE-2024-58042

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2024
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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rhashtable: Fix potential deadlock by moving schedule_work outside lock

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rhashtable: Fix potential deadlock by moving schedule_work outside lock Move the hash table growth check and work scheduling outside the rht lock to prevent a possible circular locking dependency. The original implementation could trigger a lockdep warning due to a potential deadlock scenario involving nested locks between rhashtable bucket, rq lock, and dsq lock. By relocating the growth check and work scheduling after releasing the rth lock, we break this potential deadlock chain. This change expands the flexibility of rhashtable by removing restrictive locking that previously limited its use in scheduler and workqueue contexts. Import to say that this calls rht_grow_above_75(), which reads from struct rhashtable without holding the lock, if this is a problem, we can move the check to the lock, and schedule the workqueue after the lock. Modified so that atomic_inc is also moved outside of the bucket lock along with the growth above 75% check.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3faffectedgiteb2e58484b838fb4e777ee9721bb9e20e6ca971dUnavailableNone listed
f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3faffectedgitced8ce3c83a7150c5f5d371a8c332d7bc7f9b66dUnavailableNone listed
f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3faffectedgite1d3422c95f003eba241c176adfe593c33e8a8f6UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
6.12affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver6.12UnavailableNone listed
6.12.13unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.13.2unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.13.*None listed
6.14unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed