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* Re: CVE-2023-52521: bpf: Annotate bpf_long_memcpy with data_race
       [not found] <2024030253-CVE-2023-52521-d847@gregkh>
@ 2024-03-05 16:54 ` Michal Hocko
  2024-03-05 22:22   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2024-03-05 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cve, linux-kernel; +Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman

On Sat 02-03-24 22:53:05, Greg KH wrote:
> Description
> ===========
> 
> In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> 
> bpf: Annotate bpf_long_memcpy with data_race
> 
> syzbot reported a data race splat between two processes trying to
> update the same BPF map value via syscall on different CPUs:
> 
>   BUG: KCSAN: data-race in bpf_percpu_array_update / bpf_percpu_array_update

I would like to dispute this CVE. It adds data_race annotation which
doesn't have any impact on the code generation.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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* Re: CVE-2023-52521: bpf: Annotate bpf_long_memcpy with data_race
  2024-03-05 16:54 ` CVE-2023-52521: bpf: Annotate bpf_long_memcpy with data_race Michal Hocko
@ 2024-03-05 22:22   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2024-03-05 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michal Hocko; +Cc: cve, linux-kernel

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 05:54:45PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sat 02-03-24 22:53:05, Greg KH wrote:
> > Description
> > ===========
> > 
> > In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> > 
> > bpf: Annotate bpf_long_memcpy with data_race
> > 
> > syzbot reported a data race splat between two processes trying to
> > update the same BPF map value via syscall on different CPUs:
> > 
> >   BUG: KCSAN: data-race in bpf_percpu_array_update / bpf_percpu_array_update
> 
> I would like to dispute this CVE. It adds data_race annotation which
> doesn't have any impact on the code generation.

Ah, my fault, I thought the "BUG: KCSAN:" line was a real BUG() call,
it's just a syslog dump, good catch.

I'll go revoke this now, thanks for the review!

greg k-h

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