{"id":"CVE-2024-57939","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"riscv: Fix sleeping in invalid context in die()","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: Fix sleeping in invalid context in die()\n\ndie() can be called in exception handler, and therefore cannot sleep.\nHowever, die() takes spinlock_t which can sleep with PREEMPT_RT enabled.\nThat causes the following warning:\n\nBUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48\nin_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 285, name: mutex\npreempt_count: 110001, expected: 0\nRCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 285 Comm: mutex Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-00022-ge19049cf7d56-dirty #234\nHardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)\nCall Trace:\n    dump_backtrace+0x1c/0x24\n    show_stack+0x2c/0x38\n    dump_stack_lvl+0x5a/0x72\n    dump_stack+0x14/0x1c\n    __might_resched+0x130/0x13a\n    rt_spin_lock+0x2a/0x5c\n    die+0x24/0x112\n    do_trap_insn_illegal+0xa0/0xea\n    _new_vmalloc_restore_context_a0+0xcc/0xd8\nOops - 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