Vulnerability CVE-2024-43890
Published: 2024-08-26

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

tracing: Fix overflow in get_free_elt()

"tracing_map->next_elt" in get_free_elt() is at risk of overflowing.

Once it overflows, new elements can still be inserted into the tracing_map
even though the maximum number of elements (`max_elts`) has been reached.
Continuing to insert elements after the overflow could result in the
tracing_map containing "tracing_map->max_size" elements, leaving no empty
entries.
If any attempt is made to insert an element into a full tracing_map using
`__tracing_map_insert()`, it will cause an infinite loop with preemption
disabled, leading to a CPU hang problem.

Fix this by preventing any further increments to "tracing_map->next_elt"
once it reaches "tracing_map->max_elt".

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/302ceb625d7b990db205a15e371f9a71238de91c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3e4dbc2858fe85d1dbd2e72a9fc5dea988b5c18
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb223bf01e688dfe37e813c8988ee11c8c9f8d0a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd10d186a5409a1fe6e976df82858e9773a698da
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/788ea62499b3c18541fd6d621964d8fafbc4aec5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a172c7b22bc2feaf489cfc6d6865f7237134fdf8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/236bb4690773ab6869b40bedc7bc8d889e36f9d6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcf86c01ca4676316557dd482c8416ece8c2e143
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