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CVE-2024-44958

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:sched/smt: Fix unbalance sched_smt_present dec/incI got the following warn report while doing stress test:jump label: negative count!WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 38 at kernel/jump_label.c:263 static_key_slow_try_dec+0x9d/0xb0Call Trace: __static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked+0x16/0x70 sched_cpu_deactivate+0x26e/0x2a0 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x3ad/0x10d0 cpuhp_thread_fun+0x3f5/0x680 smpboot_thread_fn+0x56d/0x8d0 kthread+0x309/0x400 ret_from_fork+0x41/0x70 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 Because when cpuset_cpu_inactive() fails in sched_cpu_deactivate(),the cpu offline failed, but sched_smt_present is decremented beforecalling sched_cpu_deactivate(), it leads to unbalanced dec/inc, sofix it by incrementing sched_smt_present in the error path.

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Github

- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds