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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task\n\nWhen an already-exiting task oopses, make_task_dead() currently calls\ndo_task_dead() with preemption enabled.  That is forbidden:\ndo_task_dead() calls __schedule(), which has a comment saying \"WARNING:\nmust be called with preemption disabled!\".\n\nIf an oopsing task is preempted in do_task_dead(), between becoming\nTASK_DEAD and entering the scheduler explicitly, bad things happen:\nfinish_task_switch() assumes that once the scheduler has switched away\nfrom a TASK_DEAD task, the task can never run again and its stack is no\nlonger needed; but that assumption apparently doesn\u0027t hold if the dead\ntask was preempted (the SM_PREEMPT case).\n\nThis means that the scheduler ends up repeatedly dropping references on\nthe dead task\u0027s stack, which can lead to use-after-free or double-free\nof the entire task stack; in other words, two tasks can end up running\non the same stack, resulting in various kinds of memory corruption.\n\n(This does not just affect \"recursively oopsing\" tasks; it is enough to\noops once during task exit, for example in a file_operations::release\nhandler)"
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