CVE-2024-39476

md/raid5: fix deadlock that raid5d() wait for itself to clear MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 5, 2024
Updated
May 23, 2026
Reserved
Jun 25, 2024

Read the record on cve.org

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

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f3d55bd5b7b928ad82f8075d89c908702f3593ab to before b32aa95843cac6b12c2c014d40fca18aef24a347Affected
  • 1c00bb624cd084e2006520ad0edacaff0fb941c4 to before 634ba3c97ec413cb10681c7b196db43ee461ecf4Affected
  • 782b3e71c957991ac8ae53318bc369049d49bb53 to before aa64464c8f4d2ab92f6d0b959a1e0767b829d787Affected
  • 9e86dffd0b02594d2e7c60c6db9e889c0395414b to before 098d54934814dd876963abfe751c3b1cf7fbe56aAffected
  • 5e2cf333b7bd5d3e62595a44d598a254c697cd74 to before 3f8d5e802d4cedd445f9a89be8c3fd2d0e99024bAffected
  • 5e2cf333b7bd5d3e62595a44d598a254c697cd74 to before cd2538e5af495b3c747e503db346470fc1ffc447Affected
  • 5e2cf333b7bd5d3e62595a44d598a254c697cd74 to before e332a12f65d8fed8cf63bedb4e9317bb872b9ac7Affected
  • 5e2cf333b7bd5d3e62595a44d598a254c697cd74 to before 151f66bb618d1fd0eeb84acb61b4a9fa5d8bb0faAffected
  • 7d808fe6af8409cf9f46ed2b10840e5788985e9bAffected
  • 2cab058f2b147e0b7c01546ba00445e5701861f5Affected
  • 91962e40ec3d26e291db230cd45b302da2aff200Affected
  • 4.19.262 to before 4.19.316Affected
  • 5.4.220 to before 5.4.278Affected
  • 5.10.150 to before 5.10.219Affected
  • 5.15.75 to before 5.15.161Affected
  • 4.14.296 to before 4.15Affected
  • 5.19.17 to before 5.20Affected
  • 6.0.3 to before 6.1Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.1Affected
  • before 6.1Not affected
  • 4.19.316 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.278 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.219 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.161 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.94 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.34 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.9.5 through 6.9.*Not affected
  • 6.10 and laterNot affected

References

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.