CVE-2024-26627

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.5-5.9, 5.11-5.14, 5.16-6.0, 6.2-6.5, 6.7 - Denial of Service via SCSI Error Handler Wakeup

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Move scsi_host_busy() out of host lock for waking up EH handler Inside scsi_eh_wakeup(), scsi_host_busy() is called & checked with host lock every time for deciding if error handler kthread needs to be waken up. This can be too heavy in case of recovery, such as: - N hardware queues - queue depth is M for each hardware queue - each scsi_host_busy() iterates over (N * M) tag/requests If recovery is triggered in case that all requests are in-flight, each scsi_eh_wakeup() is strictly serialized, when scsi_eh_wakeup() is called for the last in-flight request, scsi_host_busy() has been run for (N * M - 1) times, and request has been iterated for (N*M - 1) * (N * M) times. If both N and M are big enough, hard lockup can be triggered on acquiring host lock, and it is observed on mpi3mr(128 hw queues, queue depth 8169). Fix the issue by calling scsi_host_busy() outside the host lock. We don't need the host lock for getting busy count because host the lock never covers that. [mkp: Drop unnecessary 'busy' variables pointed out by Bart]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 15.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (21)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.149linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.77linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.210linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.16linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.7.4linux
Linux/Linux < 5.5
Linux/Linux 5.10.210 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.149 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.5
Linux/Linux 6.1.77 - 6.1.*
... and 11 more
Published Mar 06, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026