CVE-2024-39476

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Deadlock via MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING in RAID5

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid5: fix deadlock that raid5d() wait for itself to clear MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING Xiao reported that lvm2 test lvconvert-raid-takeover.sh can hang with small possibility, the root cause is exactly the same as commit bed9e27baf52 ("Revert "md/raid5: Wait for MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING in raid5d"") However, Dan reported another hang after that, and junxiao investigated the problem and found out that this is caused by plugged bio can't issue from raid5d(). Current implementation in raid5d() has a weird dependence: 1) md_check_recovery() from raid5d() must hold 'reconfig_mutex' to clear MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING; 2) raid5d() handles IO in a deadloop, until all IO are issued; 3) IO from raid5d() must wait for MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING to be cleared; This behaviour is introduce before v2.6, and for consequence, if other context hold 'reconfig_mutex', and md_check_recovery() can't update super_block, then raid5d() will waste one cpu 100% by the deadloop, until 'reconfig_mutex' is released. Refer to the implementation from raid1 and raid10, fix this problem by skipping issue IO if MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING is still set after md_check_recovery(), daemon thread will be woken up when 'reconfig_mutex' is released. Meanwhile, the hang problem will be fixed as well.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.7%
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 (36)
linux/Kernel < 4.19.316linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.278linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.161linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.94linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.219linux
linux/Kernel 6.1.0 - 6.6.34linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.9.5linux
Linux/Linux < 6.1
Linux/Linux 1c00bb624cd084e2006520ad0edacaff0fb941c4 - 634ba3c97ec413cb10681c7b196db43ee461ecf4
Linux/Linux 2cab058f2b147e0b7c01546ba00445e5701861f5
... and 26 more
Published Jul 05, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026