In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpu/hotplug: Don't offline the last non-isolated CPU If a system has isolated CPUs via the "isolcpus=" command line parameter, then an attempt to offline the last housekeeping CPU will result in a WARNON() when rebuilding the scheduler domains and a subsequent panic due to and unhandled empty CPU mas in partitionscheddomainslocked(). cpusethotplugworkfn() rebuildscheddomainslocked() ndoms = generatescheddomains(&doms, &attr); cpumaskand(doms[0], topcpuset.effectivecpus, housekeepingcpumask(HKFLAGDOMAIN)); Thus results in an empty CPU mask which triggers the warning and then the subsequent crash: WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 80 at kernel/sched/topology.c:2366 buildscheddomains+0x120c/0x1408 Call trace: buildscheddomains+0x120c/0x1408 partitionscheddomainslocked+0x234/0x880 rebuildscheddomainslocked+0x37c/0x798 rebuildscheddomains+0x30/0x58 cpusethotplugworkfn+0x2a8/0x930 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffe80027ab37080 partitionscheddomainslocked+0x318/0x880 rebuildscheddomains_locked+0x37c/0x798 Aside of the resulting crash, it does not make any sense to offline the last last housekeeping CPU. Prevent this by masking out the non-housekeeping CPUs when selecting a target CPU for initiating the CPU unplug operation via the work queue.
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