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Unscored CVE-2022-48845 EUVD-2022-53724GHSA-r7cx-6c4p-88r8

MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier

Published Jul 16, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier

After enabling CONFIG_SCHED_CORE (landed during 5.14 cycle),
2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv (CPS-driven) started emitting
the following:

[ 0.025698] CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 (MIPS interAptiv (multi))
[ 0.048183] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 0.048187] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/core.c:6025 sched_core_cpu_starting+0x198/0x240
[ 0.048220] Modules linked in:
[ 0.048233] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3+ #35 b7b319f24073fd9a3c2aa7ad15fb7993eec0b26f
[ 0.048247] Stack : 817f0000 00000004 327804c8 810eb050 00000000 00000004 00000000 c314fdd1
[ 0.048278] 830cbd64 819c0000 81800000 817f0000 83070bf4 00000001 830cbd08 00000000
[ 0.048307] 00000000 00000000 815fcbc4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 0.048334] 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 817f0000 00000000 00000000 817f6f34
[ 0.048361] 817f0000 818a3c00 817f0000 00000004 00000000 00000000 4dc33260 0018c933
[ 0.048389] ...
[ 0.048396] Call Trace:
[ 0.048399] [<8105a7bc>] show_stack+0x3c/0x140
[ 0.048424] [<8131c2a0>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80
[ 0.048440] [<8108b5c0>] __warn+0xc0/0xf4
[ 0.048454] [<8108b658>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x64/0x10c
[ 0.048467] [<810bd418>] sched_core_cpu_starting+0x198/0x240
[ 0.048483] [<810c6514>] sched_cpu_starting+0x14/0x80
[ 0.048497] [<8108c0f8>] cpuhp_invoke_callback_range+0x78/0x140
[ 0.048510] [<8108d914>] notify_cpu_starting+0x94/0x140
[ 0.048523] [<8106593c>] start_secondary+0xbc/0x280
[ 0.048539]
[ 0.048543] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 0.048636] Synchronize counters for CPU 1: done.

...for each but CPU 0/boot.
Basic debug printks right before the mentioned line say:

[ 0.048170] CPU: 1, smt_mask:

So smt_mask, which is sibling mask obviously, is empty when entering
the function.
This is critical, as sched_core_cpu_starting() calculates
core-scheduling parameters only once per CPU start, and it's crucial
to have all the parameters filled in at that moment (at least it
uses cpu_smt_mask() which in fact is `&cpu_sibling_map[cpu]` on
MIPS).

A bit of debugging led me to that set_cpu_sibling_map() performing
the actual map calculation, was being invocated after
notify_cpu_start(), and exactly the latter function starts CPU HP
callback round (sched_core_cpu_starting() is basically a CPU HP
callback).
While the flow is same on ARM64 (maps after the notifier, although
before calling set_cpu_online()), x86 started calculating sibling
maps earlier than starting the CPU HP callbacks in Linux 4.14 (see
[0] for the reference). Neither me nor my brief tests couldn't find
any potential caveats in calculating the maps right after performing
delay calibration, but the WARN splat is now gone.
The very same debug prints now yield exactly what I expected from
them:

[ 0.048433] CPU: 1, smt_mask: 0-1

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git/commit/?id=76ce7cfe35ef

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 2.6.28 4.9.308

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 5.16.18-1 —
Debian 13 linux 5.16.18-1 —
Debian 12 linux 5.16.18-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +25 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-117.132 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws +1 5.4.0-1078.84 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1083.87 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1040.44 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.4.0-1046.48 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.4.0-1026.29 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1008.11~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-iot 5.4.0-1004.6 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1068.72 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1076.83 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1065.75 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux 4.15.0-184.194 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws 4.15.0-1133.143 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 +1 5.4.0-1078.84~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-4.15 4.15.0-1142.156 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1083.87~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-4.15 4.15.0-1127.142 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-117.132~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1028.32~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-kvm 4.15.0-1119.123 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1098.108 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1076.83~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1065.75~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1007.7 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips +1 5.4.0-1078.84+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1083.87+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1054.61 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 4.15.0-2072.76 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 4.15.0-2053.58 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips 4.15.0-1090.100 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 4.15.0-2037.41 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-aws-hwe 4.15.0-1133.143~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1142.156~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-gcp 4.15.0-1127.142~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-hwe 4.15.0-184.194~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1098.108~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1142.156~14.04.1 —

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