https://vulnerability.circl.lu Contains only the most 10 recent entries. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:09:16 +0000 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-41932 <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity</p> <p>Commit 8f9ea86fdf99b added some logic to sched_setaffinity that included a WARN when a per-task affinity assignment races with a cpuset update.</p> <p>Specifically, we can have a race where a cpuset update results in the task affinity no longer being a subset of the cpuset. That&#39;s fine; we have a fallback to instead use the cpuset mask. However, we have a WARN set up that will trigger if the cpuset mask has no overlap at all with the requested task affinity. This shouldn&#39;t be a warning condition; its trivial to create this condition.</p> <p>Reproduced the warning by the following setup:</p> <p>- $PID inside a cpuset cgroup - another thread repeatedly switching the cpuset cpus from 1-2 to just 1 - another thread repeatedly setting the $PID affinity (via taskset) to 2</p> <p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p> <p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p> <p>sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity</p> <p>Commit 8f9ea86fdf99b added some logic to sched_setaffinity that included a WARN when a per-task affinity assignment races with a cpuset update.</p> <p>Specifically, we can have a race where a cpuset update results in the task affinity no longer being a subset of the cpuset. That&#39;s fine; we have a fallback to instead use the cpuset mask. However, we have a WARN set up that will trigger if the cpuset mask has no overlap at all with the requested task affinity. This shouldn&#39;t be a warning condition; its trivial to create this condition.</p> <p>Reproduced the warning by the following setup:</p> <p>- $PID inside a cpuset cgroup - another thread repeatedly switching the cpuset cpus from 1-2 to just 1 - another thread repeatedly setting the $PID affinity (via taskset) to 2</p> https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-41932