Vulnerability CVE-2024-42135


Published: 2024-07-30

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

vhost_task: Handle SIGKILL by flushing work and exiting

Instead of lingering until the device is closed, this has us handle
SIGKILL by:

1. marking the worker as killed so we no longer try to use it with
new virtqueues and new flush operations.
2. setting the virtqueue to worker mapping so no new works are queued.
3. running all the exiting works.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abe067dc3a662eef7d5cddbbc41ed50a0b68b0af
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dec987fe2df670827eb53b97c9552ed8dfc63ad4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db5247d9bf5c6ade9fd70b4e4897441e0269b233

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