CVE-2024-26755

md: Don't suspend the array for interrupted reshape

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Apr 3, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 19, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md: Don't suspend the array for interrupted reshape

md_start_sync() will suspend the array if there are spares that can be added or removed from conf, however, if reshape is still in progress, this won't happen at all or data will be corrupted(remove_and_add_spares won't be called from md_choose_sync_action for reshape), hence there is no need to suspend the array if reshape is not done yet.

Meanwhile, there is a potential deadlock for raid456:

1) reshape is interrupted;

2) set one of the disk WantReplacement, and add a new disk to the array, however, recovery won't start until the reshape is finished;

3) then issue an IO across reshpae position, this IO will wait for reshape to make progress;

4) continue to reshape, then md_start_sync() found there is a spare disk that can be added to conf, mddev_suspend() is called;

Step 4 and step 3 is waiting for each other, deadlock triggered. Noted this problem is found by code review, and it's not reporduced yet.

Fix this porblem by don't suspend the array for interrupted reshape, this is safe because conf won't be changed until reshape is done.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • bc08041b32abe6c9824f78735bac22018eabfc06 to before 60d6130d0ac1d883ed93c2a1e10aadb60967fd48Affected
  • bc08041b32abe6c9824f78735bac22018eabfc06 to before 9e46c70e829bddc24e04f963471e9983a11598b7Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.7Affected
  • before 6.7Not affected
  • 6.7.7 through 6.7.*Not affected
  • 6.8 and laterNot affected

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