In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: slub: fix flush_cpu_slab()/__free_slab() invocations in task context.

Commit 5a836bf6b09f ("mm: slub: move flush_cpu_slab() invocations
__free_slab() invocations out of IRQ context") moved all flush_cpu_slab()
invocations to the global workqueue to avoid a problem related
with deactivate_slab()/__free_slab() being called from an IRQ context
on PREEMPT_RT kernels.

When the flush_all_cpu_locked() function is called from a task context
it may happen that a workqueue with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM bit set ends up
flushing the global workqueue, this will cause a dependency issue.

workqueue: WQ_MEM_RECLAIM nvme-delete-wq:nvme_delete_ctrl_work [nvme_core]
is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM events:flush_cpu_slab
WARNING: CPU: 37 PID: 410 at kernel/workqueue.c:2637
check_flush_dependency+0x10a/0x120
Workqueue: nvme-delete-wq nvme_delete_ctrl_work [nvme_core]
RIP: 0010:check_flush_dependency+0x10a/0x120[ 453.262125] Call Trace:
__flush_work.isra.0+0xbf/0x220
? __queue_work+0x1dc/0x420
flush_all_cpus_locked+0xfb/0x120
__kmem_cache_shutdown+0x2b/0x320
kmem_cache_destroy+0x49/0x100
bioset_exit+0x143/0x190
blk_release_queue+0xb9/0x100
kobject_cleanup+0x37/0x130
nvme_fc_ctrl_free+0xc6/0x150 [nvme_fc]
nvme_free_ctrl+0x1ac/0x2b0 [nvme_core]

Fix this bug by creating a workqueue for the flush operation with
the WQ_MEM_RECLAIM bit set.

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-04T08:20:43.519Z

Reserved: 2024-02-25T13:44:28.317Z

Link: CVE-2022-48658

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T15:17:55.669Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-04-28T13:15:07.760

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:33:42.927

Link: CVE-2022-48658

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-04-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-48658 - Bugzilla

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