CVE-2024-26758

md: Don't ignore suspended array in md_check_recovery()

State
Published
Severity
5.5 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 ignore suspended array in md_check_recovery()

mddev_suspend() never stop sync_thread, hence it doesn't make sense to ignore suspended array in md_check_recovery(), which might cause sync_thread can't be unregistered.

After commit f52f5c71f3d4 ("md: fix stopping sync thread"), following hang can be triggered by test shell/integrity-caching.sh:

1) suspend the array: raid_postsuspend mddev_suspend

2) stop the array: raid_dtr md_stop __md_stop_writes stop_sync_thread set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery); md_wakeup_thread_directly(mddev->sync_thread); wait_event(..., !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery))

3) sync thread done: md_do_sync set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_DONE, &mddev->recovery); md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);

4) daemon thread can't unregister sync thread: md_check_recovery if (mddev->suspended) return; -> return directly md_read_sync_thread clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery); -> MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING can't be cleared, hence step 2 hang;

This problem is not just related to dm-raid, fix it by ignoring suspended array in md_check_recovery(). And follow up patches will improve dm-raid better to frozen sync thread during suspend.

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

  • CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 68866e425be2ef2664aa5c691bb3ab789736acf5 to before a55f0d6179a19c6b982e2dc344d58c98647a3be0Affected
  • 68866e425be2ef2664aa5c691bb3ab789736acf5 to before 1baae052cccd08daf9a9d64c3f959d8cdb689757Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.0Affected
  • before 3.0Not affected
  • 6.7.7 through 6.7.*Not affected
  • 6.8 and laterNot affected

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