CVE-2025-39843

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Inside stack depot they are processed by\ngfp_nested_mask().\nSince ___slab_alloc() has preemption disabled, we mask out\n__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM from the flags there.\n\nThe oops looks something like:\n\nBUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#3, swapper/3/0\n lock: 0xffffff8a4bf29c80, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/3/0, .owner_cpu: 3\nHardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Popsicle based on SM8850 (DT)\nCall trace:\nspin_bug+0x0\n_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x80\nhrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x94\ntask_contending+0x10c\nenqueue_dl_entity+0x2a4\ndl_server_start+0x74\nenqueue_task_fair+0x568\nenqueue_task+0xac\ndo_activate_task+0x14c\nttwu_do_activate+0xcc\ntry_to_wake_up+0x6c8\ndefault_wake_function+0x20\nautoremove_wake_function+0x1c\n__wake_up+0xac\nwakeup_kswapd+0x19c\nwake_all_kswapds+0x78\n__alloc_pages_slowpath+0x1ac\n__alloc_pages_noprof+0x298\nstack_depot_save_flags+0x6b0\nstack_depot_save+0x14\nset_track_prepare+0x5c\n___slab_alloc+0xccc\n__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x470\n__set_page_owner+0x2bc\npost_alloc_hook[jt]+0x1b8\nprep_new_page+0x28\nget_page_from_freelist+0x1edc\n__alloc_pages_noprof+0x13c\nalloc_slab_page+0x244\nallocate_slab+0x7c\n___slab_alloc+0x8e8\nkmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x450\ndebug_objects_fill_pool+0x22c\ndebug_object_activate+0x40\nenqueue_hrtimer[jt]+0xdc\nhrtimer_start_range_ns+0x5f8\n..."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, la siguiente vulnerabilidad ha sido resuelta:\n\nmm: slub: evitar despertar a kswapd en set_track_prepare\n\nset_track_prepare() puede incurrir en recursi\u00f3n de bloqueo.\nEl problema es que se llama desde hrtimer_start_range_ns manteniendo el per_cpu(hrtimer_bases)[n].lock, pero cuando se habilita CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS, puede despertar a kswapd en set_track_prepare, e intentar mantener el per_cpu(hrtimer_bases)[n].lock.\n\nEvitar interbloqueo causado por despertar impl\u00edcitamente a kswapd pasando banderas de asignaci\u00f3n, que no contienen __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM en el caso de debug_objects_fill_pool(). Dentro del stack depot son procesados por gfp_nested_mask().\nDado que ___slab_alloc() tiene la preemption deshabilitada, enmascaramos __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM de las banderas all\u00ed.\n\nEl oops se ve algo as\u00ed como:\n\nBUG: recursi\u00f3n de spinlock en CPU#3, swapper/3/0\nlock: 0xffffff8a4bf29c80, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/3/0, .owner_cpu: 3\nNombre de hardware: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. 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