Vulnerability CVE-2024-40995
Published: 2024-07-12

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sched: act_api: fix possible infinite loop in tcf_idr_check_alloc()

syzbot found hanging tasks waiting on rtnl_lock [1]

A reproducer is available in the syzbot bug.

When a request to add multiple actions with the same index is sent, the
second request will block forever on the first request. This holds
rtnl_lock, and causes tasks to hang.

Return -EAGAIN to prevent infinite looping, while keeping documented
behavior.

[1]

INFO: task kworker/1:0:5088 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-syzkaller-00173-g3cdb45594619 #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/1:0 state:D stack:23744 pid:5088 tgid:5088 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: events_power_efficient reg_check_chans_work
Call Trace:
<TASK>
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5409 [inline]
__schedule+0xf15/0x5d00 kernel/sched/core.c:6746
__schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6823 [inline]
schedule+0xe7/0x350 kernel/sched/core.c:6838
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:6895
__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:684 [inline]
__mutex_lock+0x5b8/0x9c0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:752
wiphy_lock include/net/cfg80211.h:5953 [inline]
reg_leave_invalid_chans net/wireless/reg.c:2466 [inline]
reg_check_chans_work+0x10a/0x10e0 net/wireless/reg.c:2481

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d8a2d287c8a394c0d4653f0c6c7be4c688e5a74
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6a7da65a296745535a964be1019ec7691b0cb90
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25987a97eec4d5f897cd04ee1b45170829c610da
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fc78d67f51aeb9a542d39a8714e16bc411582d4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f926aa96b08b6c47178fe1171e7ae331c695fc2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a0e497b597df7c4cf2b63fc6e9188b6cabe5335
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d864319871b05fadd153e0aede4811ca7008f5d6
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