CVE-2024-26627

scsi: core: Move scsi_host_busy() out of host lock for waking up EH handler

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Mar 6, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 19, 2024

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 6eb045e092efefafc6687409a6fa6d1dabf0fb69 to before f5944853f7a961fedc1227dc8f60393f8936d37cAffected
  • 6eb045e092efefafc6687409a6fa6d1dabf0fb69 to before d37c1c81419fdef66ebd0747cf76fb8b7d979059Affected
  • 6eb045e092efefafc6687409a6fa6d1dabf0fb69 to before db6338f45971b4285ea368432a84033690eaf53cAffected
  • 6eb045e092efefafc6687409a6fa6d1dabf0fb69 to before 65ead8468c21c2676d4d06f50b46beffdea69df1Affected
  • 6eb045e092efefafc6687409a6fa6d1dabf0fb69 to before 07e3ca0f17f579491b5f54e9ed05173d6c1d6fcbAffected
  • 6eb045e092efefafc6687409a6fa6d1dabf0fb69 to before 4373534a9850627a2695317944898eb1283a2db0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.5Affected
  • before 5.5Not affected
  • 5.10.210 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.149 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.77 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.16 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.7.4 through 6.7.*Not affected
  • 6.8 and laterNot affected

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