CVE-2024-43914

md/raid5: avoid BUG_ON() while continue reshape after reassembling

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 26, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Aug 17, 2024

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Description

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

md/raid5: avoid BUG_ON() while continue reshape after reassembling

Currently, mdadm support --revert-reshape to abort the reshape while reassembling, as the test 07revert-grow. However, following BUG_ON() can be triggerred by the test:

kernel BUG at drivers/md/raid5.c:6278! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI irq event stamp: 158985 CPU: 6 PID: 891 Comm: md0_reshape Not tainted 6.9.0-03335-g7592a0b0049a #94 RIP: 0010:reshape_request+0x3f1/0xe60 Call Trace: <TASK> raid5_sync_request+0x43d/0x550 md_do_sync+0xb7a/0x2110 md_thread+0x294/0x2b0 kthread+0x147/0x1c0 ret_from_fork+0x59/0x70 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK>

Root cause is that --revert-reshape update the raid_disks from 5 to 4, while reshape position is still set, and after reassembling the array, reshape position will be read from super block, then during reshape the checking of 'writepos' that is caculated by old reshape position will fail.

Fix this panic the easy way first, by converting the BUG_ON() to WARN_ON(), and stop the reshape if checkings fail.

Noted that mdadm must fix --revert-shape as well, and probably md/raid should enhance metadata validation as well, however this means reassemble will fail and there must be user tools to fix the wrong metadata.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ec32a2bd35bd6b933a5db6542c48210ce069a376 to before 2c92f8c1c456d556f15cbf51667b385026b2e6a0Affected
  • ec32a2bd35bd6b933a5db6542c48210ce069a376 to before 6b33c468d543f6a83de2d61f09fec74b27e19fd2Affected
  • ec32a2bd35bd6b933a5db6542c48210ce069a376 to before c384dd4f1fb3b14a2fd199360701cc163ea88705Affected
  • ec32a2bd35bd6b933a5db6542c48210ce069a376 to before bf0ff69a42a3d2d46876d0514ecf13dffc516666Affected
  • ec32a2bd35bd6b933a5db6542c48210ce069a376 to before 3b33740c1750a39e046339ff9240e954f0156707Affected
  • ec32a2bd35bd6b933a5db6542c48210ce069a376 to before 775a9ba16c9ffe98fe54ebf14e55d5660f2bf600Affected
  • ec32a2bd35bd6b933a5db6542c48210ce069a376 to before 4811d6e5d9f4090c3e0ff9890eb24077108046abAffected
  • ec32a2bd35bd6b933a5db6542c48210ce069a376 to before 305a5170dc5cf3d395bb4c4e9239bca6d0b54b49Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.30Affected
  • before 2.6.30Not affected
  • 4.19.320 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.282 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.224 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.165 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.105 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.46 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.10.5 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11 and laterNot affected

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