In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: tcpmakesynack() can be called from process context
tcprtxsynack() now could be called in process context as explained in 0a375c822497 ("tcp: tcprtxsynack() can be called from process context").
tcprtxsynack() might call tcpmakesynack(), which will touch per-CPU variables with preemption enabled. This causes the following BUG:
BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: ThriftIO1/5464
caller is tcp_make_synack+0x841/0xac0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x10d/0x1a0
check_preemption_disabled+0x104/0x110
tcp_make_synack+0x841/0xac0
tcp_v6_send_synack+0x5c/0x450
tcp_rtx_synack+0xeb/0x1f0
inet_rtx_syn_ack+0x34/0x60
tcp_check_req+0x3af/0x9e0
tcp_rcv_state_process+0x59b/0x2030
tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x5f5/0x700
release_sock+0x3a/0xf0
tcp_sendmsg+0x33/0x40
____sys_sendmsg+0x2f2/0x490
__sys_sendmsg+0x184/0x230
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
Avoid calling _TCPINCSTATS() with will touch per-cpu variables. Use TCPINC_STATS() which is safe to be called from context switch.