CVE-2024-27435

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.12.1-6.1.82, 6.2.0-6.6.22, 6.7.0-6.7.10, 6.8.0-6.8.1 - Deadlock via NVMe Admin Queue Tag Allocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme: fix reconnection fail due to reserved tag allocation We found a issue on production environment while using NVMe over RDMA, admin_q reconnect failed forever while remote target and network is ok. After dig into it, we found it may caused by a ABBA deadlock due to tag allocation. In my case, the tag was hold by a keep alive request waiting inside admin_q, as we quiesced admin_q while reset ctrl, so the request maked as idle and will not process before reset success. As fabric_q shares tagset with admin_q, while reconnect remote target, we need a tag for connect command, but the only one reserved tag was held by keep alive command which waiting inside admin_q. As a result, we failed to reconnect admin_q forever. In order to fix this issue, I think we should keep two reserved tags for admin queue.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.3%
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

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel 5.12.0 - 6.1.83linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.23linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.7.11linux
linux/Kernel 6.8.0 - 6.8.2linux
Linux/Linux < 5.12
Linux/Linux 5.12
Linux/Linux 6.1.83 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.6.23 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 6.7.11 - 6.7.*
Linux/Linux 6.8.2 - 6.8.*
... and 8 more
Published May 17, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026