🛡️ CVE-2024-40980 — kernel

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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Description

drop_monitor: replace spin_lock by raw_spin_lock

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drop_monitor: replace spin_lock by raw_spin_lock

trace_drop_common() is called with preemption disabled, and it acquires

a spin_lock. This is problematic for RT kernels because spin_locks are

sleeping locks in this configuration, which causes the following splat:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48

in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 449, name: rcuc/47

preempt_count: 1, expected: 0

RCU nest depth: 2, expected: 2

5 locks held by rcuc/47/449:

#0: ff1100086ec30a60 ((softirq_ctrl.lock)){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x105/0x210

#1: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rt_spin_lock+0xbf/0x130

#2: ffffffffb394a280 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: __local_bh_disable_ip+0x11c/0x210

#3: ffffffffb394a160 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_do_batch+0x360/0xc70

#4: ff1100086ee07520 (&data->lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290

irq event stamp: 139909

hardirqs last enabled at (139908): [<ffffffffb1df2b33>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x63/0x80

hardirqs last disabled at (139909): [<ffffffffb19bd03d>] trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0x26d/0x290

softirqs last enabled at (139892): [<ffffffffb07a1083>] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x103/0x170

softirqs last disabled at (139898): [<ffffffffb0909b33>] rcu_cpu_kthread+0x93/0x1f0

Preemption disabled at:

[<ffffffffb1de786b>] rt_mutex_slowunlock+0xab/0x2e0

CPU: 47 PID: 449 Comm: rcuc/47 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc2-rt1+ #7

Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R650/0Y2G81, BIOS 1.6.5 04/15/2022

Call Trace:

<TASK>

dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xd0

dump_stack+0x14/0x20

__might_resched+0x21e/0x2f0

rt_spin_lock+0x5e/0x130

? trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290

? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230

trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0xb5/0x290

? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0

? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0x80

? __pfx_trace_drop_common.constprop.0+0x10/0x10

? rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x26a/0x2e0

? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230

? __pfx_rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x10/0x10

? skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230

trace_kfree_skb_hit+0x15/0x20

trace_kfree_skb+0xe9/0x150

kfree_skb_reason+0x7b/0x110

skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x1bf/0x230

? __pfx_skb_queue_purge_reason.part.0+0x10/0x10

? mark_lock.part.0+0x8a/0x520

...

trace_drop_common() also disables interrupts, but this is a minor issue

because we could easily replace it with a local_lock.

Replace the spin_lock with raw_spin_lock to avoid sleeping in atomic

context.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2024-40980 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.7.0 up to 6.9.7)
  • linux-kernel (from 6.7 up to 6.9.7)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 July 2024 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

cert-portal.siemens.com (Web)
cert-portal.siemens.com (Web)
cert-portal.siemens.com (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2024-40980 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-07-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.7.0 6.9.7
linux-kernel 6.7 6.9.7

References

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