# CVE-2024-41932: sched: fix warning in sched\_setaffinity

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.160, 6.12.5
- Published: 2025-01-11 · Updated: 2026-10-21

## Affected

- Linux: from 8f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4, fixed in d35130036d327b6c175d95db9ea8d64e1abd4a1b; from 8f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4, fixed in 5c3fb75f538cfcb886f6dfeb497d99fc2f263ee6; from 8f9ea86fdf99b81458cc21fc1c591fcd4a0fa1f4, fixed in 70ee7947a29029736a1a06c73a48ff37674a851b
- Linux: 6.2
- Kernel (Linux): from 6.2.0, fixed in 6.6.160; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.12.5

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: fix warning in sched_setaffinity Commit 8f9ea86fdf99b added some logic to sched_setaffinity that included a WARN when a per-task affinity assignment races with a cpuset update. Specifically, we can have a race where a cpuset update results in the task affinity no longer being a subset of the cpuset. That'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't be a warning condition; its trivial to create this condition. Reproduced the warning by the following setup: - $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

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d35130036d327b6c175d95db9ea8d64e1abd4a1b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c3fb75f538cfcb886f6dfeb497d99fc2f263ee6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70ee7947a29029736a1a06c73a48ff37674a851b

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