{"id":"CVE-2024-53160","summary":"rcu/kvfree: Fix data-race in __mod_timer / kvfree_call_rcu","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrcu/kvfree: Fix data-race in __mod_timer / kvfree_call_rcu\n\nKCSAN reports a data race when access the krcp-\u003emonitor_work.timer.expires\nvariable in the schedule_delayed_monitor_work() function:\n\n\u003csnip\u003e\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in __mod_timer / kvfree_call_rcu\n\nread to 0xffff888237d1cce8 of 8 bytes by task 10149 on cpu 1:\n schedule_delayed_monitor_work kernel/rcu/tree.c:3520 [inline]\n kvfree_call_rcu+0x3b8/0x510 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3839\n trie_update_elem+0x47c/0x620 kernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c:441\n bpf_map_update_value+0x324/0x350 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:203\n generic_map_update_batch+0x401/0x520 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1849\n bpf_map_do_batch+0x28c/0x3f0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5143\n __sys_bpf+0x2e5/0x7a0\n __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5741 [inline]\n __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5739 [inline]\n __x64_sys_bpf+0x43/0x50 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5739\n x64_sys_call+0x2625/0x2d60 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:322\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xc9/0x1c0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nwrite to 0xffff888237d1cce8 of 8 bytes by task 56 on cpu 0:\n __mod_timer+0x578/0x7f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1173\n add_timer_global+0x51/0x70 kernel/time/timer.c:1330\n __queue_delayed_work+0x127/0x1a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2523\n queue_delayed_work_on+0xdf/0x190 kernel/workqueue.c:2552\n queue_delayed_work include/linux/workqueue.h:677 [inline]\n schedule_delayed_monitor_work kernel/rcu/tree.c:3525 [inline]\n kfree_rcu_monitor+0x5e8/0x660 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3643\n process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]\n process_scheduled_works+0x483/0x9a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3310\n worker_thread+0x51d/0x6f0 kernel/workqueue.c:3391\n kthread+0x1d1/0x210 kernel/kthread.c:389\n ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244\n\nReported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 56 Comm: kworker/u8:4 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2-syzkaller-00050-g5b7c893ed5ed #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024\nWorkqueue: events_unbound kfree_rcu_monitor\n\u003csnip\u003e\n\nkfree_rcu_monitor() rearms the work if a \"krcp\" has to be still\noffloaded and this is done without holding krcp-\u003elock, whereas\nthe kvfree_call_rcu() holds it.\n\nFix it by acquiring the \"krcp-\u003elock\" for kfree_rcu_monitor() so\nboth functions do not race anymore.","modified":"2026-04-02T12:22:54.811580Z","published":"2024-12-24T11:29:00.964Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2025:0117-1","SUSE-SU-2025:0153-1","SUSE-SU-2025:0154-1","SUSE-SU-2025:0289-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20165-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20166-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20248-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20249-1","USN-7276-1","USN-7277-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/53xxx/CVE-2024-53160.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05b8ea1f16667f07c8e5843fb4bde3e49d49ead8"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ced426d97ce84299ecfcc7bd8b38f975fd11089"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/967a0e61910825d1fad009d836a6cb41f7402395"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a23da88c6c80e41e0503e0b481a22c9eea63f263"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/53xxx/CVE-2024-53160.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53160"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"8fc5494ad5face62747a3937db66b00db1e5d80b"},{"fixed":"967a0e61910825d1fad009d836a6cb41f7402395"},{"fixed":"05b8ea1f16667f07c8e5843fb4bde3e49d49ead8"},{"fixed":"5ced426d97ce84299ecfcc7bd8b38f975fd11089"},{"fixed":"a23da88c6c80e41e0503e0b481a22c9eea63f263"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-53160.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}