CVE-2023-52836

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

locking/ww_mutex/test: Fix potential workqueue corruption

In some cases running with the test-ww_mutex code, I was seeing
odd behavior where sometimes it seemed flush_workqueue was
returning before all the work threads were finished.

Often this would cause strange crashes as the mutexes would be
freed while they were being used.

Looking at the code, there is a lifetime problem as the
controlling thread that spawns the work allocates the
"struct stress" structures that are passed to the workqueue
threads. Then when the workqueue threads are finished,
they free the stress struct that was passed to them.

Unfortunately the workqueue work_struct node is in the stress
struct. Which means the work_struct is freed before the work
thread returns and while flush_workqueue is waiting.

It seems like a better idea to have the controlling thread
both allocate and free the stress structures, so that we can
be sure we don't corrupt the workqueue by freeing the structure
prematurely.

So this patch reworks the test to do so, and with this change
I no longer see the early flush_workqueue returns.
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This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis.
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CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 36%
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bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oem-6.1
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oem-6.11
oracular
dne
noble
not-affected
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oem-6.5
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oem-6.8
oracular
dne
noble
not-affected
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle
oracular
not-affected
noble
not-affected
mantic
ignored
jammy
Fixed 5.15.0-1053.59
released
focal
Fixed 5.4.0-1119.128
released
bionic
ignored
xenial
ignored
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.0
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
ignored
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.11
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.13
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.15
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
Fixed 5.15.0-1053.59~20.04.1
released
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.3
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
ignored
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.4
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
Fixed 5.4.0-1119.128~18.04.1
released
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.8
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-6.5
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-6.8
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi
oracular
not-affected
noble
not-affected
mantic
ignored
jammy
Fixed 5.15.0-1048.51
released
focal
Fixed 5.4.0-1104.116
released
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi-5.4
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
Fixed 5.4.0-1104.116~18.04.1
released
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi-realtime
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi2
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
ignored
xenial
ignored
trusty
dne
linux-realtime
oracular
not-affected
noble
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv
oracular
not-affected
noble
not-affected
mantic
ignored
jammy
ignored
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.11
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.15
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
Fixed 5.15.0-1051.55~20.04.1
released
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.19
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.8
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-6.5
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-6.8
oracular
dne
noble
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
ignored
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-5.19
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-6.2
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-6.5
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-xilinx-zynqmp
oracular
dne
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
Fixed 5.15.0-1030.34
released
focal
Fixed 5.4.0-1039.43
released
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne