Deadlock Affecting perf package, versions <0:4.18.0-477.75.1.el8_8
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- published 15 Oct 2024
- disclosed 5 Jul 2024
Introduced: 5 Jul 2024
CVE-2024-39476 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 perf to version 0:4.18.0-477.75.1.el8_8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:8107.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
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:
- md_check_recovery() from raid5d() must hold 'reconfig_mutex' to clear MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING;
- raid5d() handles IO in a deadloop, until all IO are issued;
- 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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-39476
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/098d54934814dd876963abfe751c3b1cf7fbe56a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/151f66bb618d1fd0eeb84acb61b4a9fa5d8bb0fa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f8d5e802d4cedd445f9a89be8c3fd2d0e99024b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/634ba3c97ec413cb10681c7b196db43ee461ecf4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa64464c8f4d2ab92f6d0b959a1e0767b829d787
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b32aa95843cac6b12c2c014d40fca18aef24a347
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd2538e5af495b3c747e503db346470fc1ffc447
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e332a12f65d8fed8cf63bedb4e9317bb872b9ac7