🇰🇷 한글 설명
Linux 커널의 MIPS 아키텍처에서 smp_send_stop() 함수가 CPU를 오프라인으로 전환할 때 RCU(Read-Copy-Update)에 이를 알리지 않아 발생하는 취약점입니다. 이로 인해 RCU grace period가 완료되지 못하고 시스템이 무한 대기 상태에 빠져 재부팅이나 종료 과정에서 시스템이 멈추는 현상이 발생합니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
컴퓨터의 핵심 부품 중 하나인 CPU를 끌 때, 시스템 관리자에게 제대로 알리지 않아 시스템이 해당 CPU가 계속 작동 중이라고 착각하게 만듭니다. 이 때문에 컴퓨터를 끄거나 재부팅하려고 할 때 시스템이 응답하지 않고 멈춰버리는 문제가 발생합니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
MIPS: smp: report dying CPU to RCU in stop_this_cpu()
smp_send_stop() parks all secondary CPUs in stop_this_cpu(). The function
marks the CPU offline for the scheduler via set_cpu_online(false) but
never informs RCU, so RCU keeps expecting a quiescent state from CPUs
that are now spinning forever with interrupts disabled.
As long as nothing waits for an RCU grace period after smp_send_stop()
this is harmless, which is why it went unnoticed. Since commit
91840be8f710 ("irq_work: Fix use-after-free in irq_work_single() on PREEMPT_RT")
however, irq_work_sync() calls synchronize_rcu() on architectures without
an irq_work self-IPI, i.e. where arch_irq_work_has_interrupt() returns
false. That is the asm-generic default used by MIPS. Any irq_work_sync()
issued in the reboot/shutdown path after smp_send_stop() then blocks on
a grace period that can never complete, hanging the reboot:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 15 at kernel/irq_work.c:144 irq_work_queue_on
...
rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu: Offline CPU 1 blocking current GP.
rcu: Offline CPU 2 blocking current GP.
rcu: Offline CPU 3 blocking current GP.
This issue was noticed on several Realtek MIPS switch SoCs (MIPS
interAptiv) and came up during kernel bump downstream in OpenWrt from
6.18.33 to 6.18.34, after the backport of the patch to the 6.18 stable
branch. The patch also has been backported all the way back to 6.1.
Call rcutree_report_cpu_dead() once interrupts are disabled, mirroring the
generic CPU-hotplug offline path, so RCU stops waiting on the parked CPUs
and grace periods can still complete. MIPS shuts down all CPUs here
without going through the CPU-hotplug mechanism, so this report is not
otherwise issued. Reporting a dying CPU to RCU outside the regular hotplug
offline path is not unprecedented: arm64 does the same in cpu_die_early().
There it is an exception for a CPU that was coming online and is aborting
bringup, rather than the default shutdown action as on MIPS.
📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux kernel (MIPS architecture, specifically versions including 6.18.33 and older, backported to 6.1)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
Local (시스템 종료 또는 재부팅 프로세스를 유도하여 시스템 중단 유발)
🛡️ 대응 방법
Linux 커널을 최신 패치가 적용된 버전(6.18.34 이상 또는 해당 백포트 버전)으로 업데이트하십시오.
🔧 검증 코드
출력된 커널 버전이 취약점이 해결된 버전(예: 6.18.34 이상 또는 패치가 적용된 6.1 이상 버전)인지 확인합니다.