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
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 | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5944853f7a961fedc1227dc8f60393f8936d37c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d37c1c81419fdef66ebd0747cf76fb8b7d979059
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db6338f45971b4285ea368432a84033690eaf53c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65ead8468c21c2676d4d06f50b46beffdea69df1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07e3ca0f17f579491b5f54e9ed05173d6c1d6fcb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4373534a9850627a2695317944898eb1283a2db0
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
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