MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIG_SCHED_CORE (landed during 5.14 cycle), 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv (CPS-driven) started emitting the following: [ 0.025698] CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 (MIPS interAptiv (multi)) [ 0.048183] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.048187] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/core.c:6025 sched_core_cpu_starting+0x198/0x240 [ 0.048220] Modules linked in: [ 0.048233] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3+ #35 b7b319f24073fd9a3c2aa7ad15fb7993eec0b26f [ 0.048247] Stack : 817f0000 00000004 327804c8 810eb050 00000000 00000004 00000000 c314fdd1 [ 0.048278] 830cbd64 819c0000 81800000 817f0000 83070bf4 00000001 830cbd08 00000000 [ 0.048307] 00000000 00000000 815fcbc4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 0.048334] 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 817f0000 00000000 00000000 817f6f34 [ 0.048361] 817f0000 818a3c00 817f0000 00000004 00000000 00000000 4dc33260 0018c933 [ 0.048389] ... [ 0.048396] Call Trace: [ 0.048399] [<8105a7bc>] show_stack+0x3c/0x140 [ 0.048424] [<8131c2a0>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80 [ 0.048440] [<8108b5c0>] __warn+0xc0/0xf4 [ 0.048454] [<8108b658>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x64/0x10c [ 0.048467] [<810bd418>] sched_core_cpu_starting+0x198/0x240 [ 0.048483] [<810c6514>] sched_cpu_starting+0x14/0x80 [ 0.048497] [<8108c0f8>] cpuhp_invoke_callback_range+0x78/0x140 [ 0.048510] [<8108d914>] notify_cpu_starting+0x94/0x140 [ 0.048523] [<8106593c>] start_secondary+0xbc/0x280 [ 0.048539] [ 0.048543] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 0.048636] Synchronize counters for CPU 1: done. ...for each but CPU 0/boot. Basic debug printks right before the mentioned line say: [ 0.048170] CPU: 1, smt_mask: So smt_mask, which is sibling mask obviously, is empty when entering the function. This is critical, as sched_core_cpu_starting() calculates core-scheduling parameters only once per CPU start, and it's crucial to have all the parameters filled in at that moment (at least it uses cpu_smt_mask() which in fact is `&cpu_sibling_map[cpu]` on MIPS). A bit of debugging led me to that set_cpu_sibling_map() performing the actual map calculation, was being invocated after notify_cpu_start(), and exactly the latter function starts CPU HP callback round (sched_core_cpu_starting() is basically a CPU HP callback). While the flow is same on ARM64 (maps after the notifier, although before calling set_cpu_online()), x86 started calculating sibling maps earlier than starting the CPU HP callbacks in Linux 4.14 (see [0] for the reference). Neither me nor my brief tests couldn't find any potential caveats in calculating the maps right after performing delay calibration, but the WARN splat is now gone. The very same debug prints now yield exactly what I expected from them: [ 0.048433] CPU: 1, smt_mask: 0-1 [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git/commit/?id=76ce7cfe35ef
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 2.6.28 and later | 4.9.308, 4.14.273, 4.19.236, 5.4.186, 5.10.107, 5.15.30, 5.16.16, 5.17 | Patch available | CNA |
- Linux VendorLinux Affected 2.6.28 and later Fixed in 4.9.308, 4.14.273, 4.19.236, 5.4.186, 5.10.107, 5.15.30, 5.16.16, 5.17 Patch available CNA
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | before 4.9.308; 4.10 to before 4.14.273; 4.15 to before 4.19.236; 4.20 to before 5.4.186; 5.5 to before 5.10.107; 5.11 to before 5.15.30; 5.16 to before 5.16.16 | Vulnerable | Linux |
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 4.9.308; 4.10 to before 4.14.273; 4.15 to before 4.19.236; 4.20 to before 5.4.186; 5.5 to before 5.10.107; 5.11 to before 5.15.30; 5.16 to before 5.16.16 Vulnerable ·Linux
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 4.9.308, 4.14.273, 4.19.236, 5.4.186, 5.10.107, 5.15.30, 5.16.16, 5.17
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 4 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-48845
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r7cx-6c4p-88r8
References
Patch 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7315f8538db009605ffba00370678142ef00ac98
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32813321f18d5432cec1b1a6ecc964f9ea26d565
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56eaacb8137ba2071ce48d4e3d91979270e139a7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2420bc3333111184cdcb112282d13afe1338dd7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8ad9ecc406974deb5e7c070f51cc1d09d21dc4b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be538b764a46be1d0700fd3b6e82fb76bd17f13a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94647aec80d03d6914aa664b7b8e103cd9d63239
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2703def339c793674010cc9f01bfe4980231808
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Sources
- CVE-2022-48845 · CVE Program
- CVE-2022-48845 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-r7cx-6c4p-88r8 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2022-48845 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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