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CVE-2024-56768 Moderate

bpf: Fix bpf_get_smp_processor_id() on !CONFIG_SMP

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix bpf_get_smp_processor_id() on !CONFIG_SMP On x86-64 calling bpf_get_smp_processor_id() in a kernel with CONFIG_SMP disabled can trigger the following bug, as pcpu_hot is unavailable: [ 8.471774] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000936a290c [ 8.471849] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 8.471881] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page Fix by inlining a return 0 in the !CONFIG_SMP case.

Exploit probability 0.2%
Published January 6, 2025
Required by Not available
Last source change August 12, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

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Linux Kernel
Unknown Unknown

03 / CONNECTIONS

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04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2024-56768

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix bpf_get_smp_processor_id() on !CONFIG_SMP On x86-64 calling bpf_get_smp_processor_id() in a kernel with CONFIG_SMP disabled can trigger the following bug, as pcpu_hot is unavailable: [ 8.471774] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000936a290c [ 8.471849] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 8.471881] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page Fix by inlining a return 0 in the !CONFIG_SMP case.

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