Linux: sched_ext: Fix stall when a task enqueued with SCX_ENQ_LAST lands back on its CPU's local DSQ
What fixes it
- 8d891c218016b6145993e082e7f732cb69dd0e29LinuxCVE List
- 396ba6f04da3fd1fb5a3d1c9535bef3f967f4e59LinuxCVE List
- 7a9df76679633cf26e0fea882a684012c6ec245aLinuxCVE List
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched_ext: Fix stall when a task enqueued with SCX_ENQ_LAST lands back on its CPU's local DSQ
With SCX_OPS_ENQ_LAST, the last runnable task on a CPU is passed to ops.enqueue() instead of being kept running. Exiting tasks without SCX_OPS_ENQ_EXITING, migration disabled tasks without SCX_OPS_ENQ_MIGRATION_DISABLED and tasks on an offline rq skip ops.enqueue() and go straight to the local DSQ. This happens in put_prev_task_scx() after the pick has settled on idle, so nothing reschedules the CPU, which idles with the task queued until an unrelated wakeup lands on it or the watchdog fires.
scx_mitosis, which sets SCX_OPS_ENQ_LAST without SCX_OPS_ENQ_EXITING, hit this during mass cgroup teardown: exiting tasks stuck in exit_mmap() for over 40 seconds.
A task put on the local DSQ runs, as anywhere else. If the SCX_ENQ_LAST enqueue left the task on this CPU's local DSQ, set need_resched on the task being switched in, as proxy_resched_idle() does. resched_curr() would flag the task being put instead, and __schedule() clears that right after the pick.
Text from CVE List
Affected versions 8
- Linuxaffected: f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f before 8d891c218016b6145993e082e7f732cb69dd0e29CVE List
- Linuxaffected: f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f before 396ba6f04da3fd1fb5a3d1c9535bef3f967f4e59CVE List
- Linuxaffected: f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f before 7a9df76679633cf26e0fea882a684012c6ec245aCVE List
- Linuxaffected: 6.12CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: all versions before 6.12CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 6.18.59 through 6.18.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.2.13 through 7.2.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List