{"cve":"CVE-2024-56592","nvd":{"published":"2024-12-27T15:15:18.500","modified":"2026-10-30T13:17:47.323","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Call free_htab_elem() after htab_unlock_bucket()\n\nFor htab of maps, when the map is removed from the htab, it may hold the\nlast reference of the map. bpf_map_fd_put_ptr() will invoke\nbpf_map_free_id() to free the id of the removed map element. However,\nbpf_map_fd_put_ptr() is invoked while holding a bucket lock\n(raw_spin_lock_t), and bpf_map_free_id() attempts to acquire map_idr_lock\n(spinlock_t), triggering the following lockdep warning:\n\n  =============================\n  [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]\n  6.11.0-rc4+ #49 Not tainted\n  -----------------------------\n  test_maps/4881 is trying to lock:\n  ffffffff84884578 (map_idr_lock){+...}-{3:3}, at: bpf_map_free_id.part.0+0x21/0x70\n  other info that might help us debug this:\n  context-{5:5}\n  2 locks held by test_maps/4881:\n   #0: ffffffff846caf60 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: bpf_fd_htab_map_update_elem+0xf9/0x270\n   #1: ffff888149ced148 (&htab->lockdep_key#2){....}-{2:2}, at: htab_map_update_elem+0x178/0xa80\n  stack backtrace:\n  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 4881 Comm: test_maps Not tainted 6.11.0-rc4+ #49\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), ...\n  Call Trace:\n   <TASK>\n   dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0xb0\n   dump_stack+0x10/0x20\n   __lock_acquire+0x73e/0x36c0\n   lock_acquire+0x182/0x450\n   _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x43/0x70\n   bpf_map_free_id.part.0+0x21/0x70\n   bpf_map_put+0xcf/0x110\n   bpf_map_fd_put_ptr+0x9a/0xb0\n   free_htab_elem+0x69/0xe0\n   htab_map_update_elem+0x50f/0xa80\n   bpf_fd_htab_map_update_elem+0x131/0x270\n   htab_map_update_elem+0x50f/0xa80\n   bpf_fd_htab_map_update_elem+0x131/0x270\n   bpf_map_update_value+0x266/0x380\n   __sys_bpf+0x21bb/0x36b0\n   __x64_sys_bpf+0x45/0x60\n   x64_sys_call+0x1b2a/0x20d0\n   do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x100\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nOne way to fix the lockdep warning is using raw_spinlock_t for\nmap_idr_lock as well. However, bpf_map_alloc_id() invokes\nidr_alloc_cyclic() after acquiring map_idr_lock, it will trigger a\nsimilar lockdep warning because the slab's lock (s->cpu_slab->lock) is\nstill a spinlock.\n\nInstead of changing map_idr_lock's type, fix the issue by invoking\nhtab_put_fd_value() after htab_unlock_bucket(). However, only deferring\nthe invocation of htab_put_fd_value() is not enough, because the old map\npointers in htab of maps can not be saved during batched deletion.\nTherefore, also defer the invocation of free_htab_elem(), so these\nto-be-freed elements could be linked together similar to lru map.\n\nThere are four callers for ->map_fd_put_ptr:\n\n(1) alloc_htab_elem() (through htab_put_fd_value())\nIt invokes ->map_fd_put_ptr() under a raw_spinlock_t. The invocation of\nhtab_put_fd_value() can not simply move after htab_unlock_bucket(),\nbecause the old element has already been stashed in htab->extra_elems.\nIt may be reused immediately after htab_unlock_bucket() and the\ninvocation of htab_put_fd_value() after htab_unlock_bucket() may release\nthe newly-added element incorrectly. Therefore, saving the map pointer\nof the old element for htab of maps before unlocking the bucket and\nreleasing the map_ptr after unlock. Beside the map pointer in the old\nelement, should do the same thing for the special fields in the old\nelement as well.\n\n(2) free_htab_elem() (through htab_put_fd_value())\nIts caller includes __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_elem(),\nhtab_map_delete_elem() and __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch().\n\nFor htab_map_delete_elem(), simply invoke free_htab_elem() after\nhtab_unlock_bucket(). For __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch(), just\nlike lru map, linking the to-be-freed element into node_to_free list\nand invoking free_htab_elem() for these element after unlock. It is safe\nto reuse batch_flink as the link for node_to_free, because these\nelements have been removed from the hash llist.\n\nBecause htab of maps doesn't support lookup_and_delete operation,\n__htab_map_lookup_and_delete_elem() doesn't have the problem, so kept\nit as\n---truncated---","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10e8a2dec9ff1b81de8e892b0850924038adbc6d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b6a49b87cc73153a3ea5ae3f64b980386059dca","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a50b4aa3007e63a590d501341f304676ebc74b3b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9e9ed90b10c82a4e9d4d70a2890f06bfcdd3b78"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-30T13:47:47.119061695+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-56592","score":0.00218,"percentile":0.1233,"date":"2026-10-30"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). 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