ring-buffer: Use current_context for safe per-CPU buffer swap
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 93% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ring-buffer: Use current_context for safe per-CPU buffer swap
The ring_buffer_swap_cpu() function currently checks the per-CPU
committing counter to determine if a buffer is actively being written to
before performing the swap. However, there exists a race window where
this check can be bypassed:
ring_buffer_lock_reserve
cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; // cpu_buffer_a
rb_reserve_next_event
rb_start_commit // inc committing
if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(cpu_buffer->buffer) != buffer)) {...}
__rb_reserve_next
rb_move_tail
rb_end_commit(cpu_buffer); // dec committing => 0
/* interrupt hits here, successfully swaps! */
local_inc(&cpu_buffer->committing);
ring_buffer_unlock_commit
cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; // cpu_buffer_b
rb_commit
rb_end_commit
RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, !local_read(&cpu_buffer->committing))
// triggers warning
The committing counter can temporarily drop to 0 during a single write
operation (within rb_move_tail), creating a window where swap can
succeed even though the write is still in progress. This leads to
inconsistent buffer state and triggers the RB_WARN_ON in rb_commit().
Replace the committing counter check with current_context checks, which
are set at the entry of ring_buffer_lock_reserve() and remain valid
throughout the entire write operation, providing a reliable indicator of
buffer busy state during swap.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22709117d9ae95e52673685f98caac7c356a8227https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26662bc8fced1d668fa1aa146eda085bfc67bd0bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/597f279b7b4a06412e3d965e98cc36e181cdbedehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b926fb04cb9ef3156dcf88c69a59d3d1a1c4f9fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e6e2a18c20e88167d414f666032792e8bf19b80https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b524e6b234e45c7f5f90d13b042c6f57f80105chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad7e10c7ea89af45ac1bf1814855d45da472703dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f27bdc43077e4fcb5557dfc315ee8d91e741f483