CVE-2024-41023 (GCVE-0-2024-41023)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-29 14:31 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:51
VLAI
Title
sched/deadline: Fix task_struct reference leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/deadline: Fix task_struct reference leak During the execution of the following stress test with linux-rt: stress-ng --cyclic 30 --timeout 30 --minimize --quiet kmemleak frequently reported a memory leak concerning the task_struct: unreferenced object 0xffff8881305b8000 (size 16136): comm "stress-ng", pid 614, jiffies 4294883961 (age 286.412s) object hex dump (first 32 bytes): 02 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@.............. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ debug hex dump (first 16 bytes): 53 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 S............... backtrace: [<00000000046b6790>] dup_task_struct+0x30/0x540 [<00000000c5ca0f0b>] copy_process+0x3d9/0x50e0 [<00000000ced59777>] kernel_clone+0xb0/0x770 [<00000000a50befdc>] __do_sys_clone+0xb6/0xf0 [<000000001dbf2008>] do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xf0 [<00000000552900ff>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 The issue occurs in start_dl_timer(), which increments the task_struct reference count and sets a timer. The timer callback, dl_task_timer, is supposed to decrement the reference count upon expiration. However, if enqueue_task_dl() is called before the timer expires and cancels it, the reference count is not decremented, leading to the leak. This patch fixes the reference leak by ensuring the task_struct reference count is properly decremented when the timer is canceled.
Severity
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SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:24 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: feff2e65efd8d84cf831668e182b2ce73c604bbb , < 7a54d31face626f62de415ebe77b43f76c3ffaf4 (git)
Affected: feff2e65efd8d84cf831668e182b2ce73c604bbb , < b58652db66c910c2245f5bee7deca41c12d707b9 (git)
Affected: f0e1c1d8ff908a39dd42e723d08f104505dfa601 (git)
Affected: 184c8ab5342450c4ae6fc5d937f9bb06c620dcf1 (git)
Affected: 4.19.257 , < 4.20 (semver)
Affected: 5.4.212 , < 5.5 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.10 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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