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Linux Linux — net/smc: initialize close_work early to avoid warning
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0051 41.4 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 46c28dbd4c23c3f7fa37f5ea48772af79c9cc40e – —
Linux 4.12 – 6.6.66
TIMELINE
Dec 27 Reserved by Linux
Dec 27 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-56641 (Linux). CVSS 7.5 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: initialize close_work early to avoid warning
We encountered a warning that close_work was canceled before
initialization.
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 111103 at kernel/workqueue.c:3047 __flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0
Workqueue: events smc_lgr_terminate_work [smc]
RIP: 0010:__flush_work+0x19e/0x1b0
Call Trace:
? __wake_up_common+0x7a/0x190
? work_busy+0x80/0x80
__cancel_work_timer+0xe3/0x160
smc_close_cancel_work+0x1a/0x70 [smc]
smc_close_active_abort+0x207/0x360 [smc]
__smc_lgr_terminate.part.38+0xc8/0x180 [smc]
process_one_work+0x19e/0x340
worker_thread+0x30/0x370
? process_one_work+0x340/0x340
kthread+0x117/0x130
? __kthread_cancel_work+0x50/0x50
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
This is because when smc_close_cancel_work is triggered, e.g. the RDMA
driver is rmmod and the LGR is terminated, the conn->close_work is
flushed before initialization, resulting in WARN_ON(!work->func).
__smc_lgr_terminate | smc_connect_{rdma|ism}
-------------------------------------------------------------
| smc_conn_create
| \- smc_lgr_register_conn
for conn in lgr->conns_all |
\- smc_conn_kill |
\- smc_close_active_abort |
\- smc_close_cancel_work |
\- cancel_work_sync |
\- __flush_work |
(close_work) |
| smc_close_init
| \- INIT_WORK(&close_work)
So fix this by initializing close_work before establishing the
connection.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| December 27, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| December 27, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-56641 (Linux). CVSS 7.5 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 46c28dbd4c23c3f7fa37f5ea48772af79c9cc40e | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 4.12 | 6.6.66 |
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