CVE-2024-35808 Affecting kernel-tools-libs package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs package and not the kernel-tools-libs package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

md/dm-raid: don't call md_reap_sync_thread() directly

Currently md_reap_sync_thread() is called from raid_message() directly without holding 'reconfig_mutex', this is definitely unsafe because md_reap_sync_thread() can change many fields that is protected by 'reconfig_mutex'.

However, hold 'reconfig_mutex' here is still problematic because this will cause deadlock, for example, commit 130443d60b1b ("md: refactor idle/frozen_sync_thread() to fix deadlock").

Fix this problem by using stop_sync_thread() to unregister sync_thread, like md/raid did.

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35808
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/347dcdc15a1706f61aa545ae498ededdf31aeebc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e59b8d76ff511505eb0dd1478329f09e0f04669
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd32b27a66db8776d8b8e82ec7d7dde97a8693b0