Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Important

A vulnerability was discovered in the Linux kernel's hns3 network driver. The hns3_nic_net_open() function is designed to be called only once per device instance. However, due to insufficient checks, multiple calls to this function are possible. This can lead to scenarios where hns3_nic_net_open() is invoked concurrently, potentially causing system crashes.

CWE-664 - Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/platform/uv: Use alternate source for socket to node data The UV code attempts to build a set of tables to allow it to do bidirectional socket<=>node lookups. But when nr_cpus is set to a smaller number than actually present, the cpu_to_node() mapping information for unused CPUs is not available to build_socket_tables(). This results in skipping some nodes or sockets when creating the tables and leaving some -1's for later code to trip. over, causing oopses. The problem is that the socket<=>node lookups are created by doing a loop over all CPUs, then looking up the CPU's APICID and socket. But if a CPU is not present, there is no way to start this lookup. Instead of looping over all CPUs, take CPUs out of the equation entirely. Loop over all APICIDs which are mapped to a valid NUMA node. Then just extract the socket-id from the APICID. This avoid tripping over disabled CPUs.

CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource