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

dm-raid456, md/raid456: fix a deadlock for dm-raid456 while io concurrent with reshape

For raid456, if reshape is still in progress, then IO across reshape
position will wait for reshape to make progress. However, for dm-raid,
in following cases reshape will never make progress hence IO will hang:

1) the array is read-only;
2) MD_RECOVERY_WAIT is set;
3) MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN is set;

After commit c467e97f079f ("md/raid6: use valid sector values to determine
if an I/O should wait on the reshape") fix the problem that IO across
reshape position doesn't wait for reshape, the dm-raid test
shell/lvconvert-raid-reshape.sh start to hang:

[root@fedora ~]# cat /proc/979/stack
[<0>] wait_woken+0x7d/0x90
[<0>] raid5_make_request+0x929/0x1d70 [raid456]
[<0>] md_handle_request+0xc2/0x3b0 [md_mod]
[<0>] raid_map+0x2c/0x50 [dm_raid]
[<0>] __map_bio+0x251/0x380 [dm_mod]
[<0>] dm_submit_bio+0x1f0/0x760 [dm_mod]
[<0>] __submit_bio+0xc2/0x1c0
[<0>] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x17f/0x450
[<0>] submit_bio_noacct+0x2bc/0x780
[<0>] submit_bio+0x70/0xc0
[<0>] mpage_readahead+0x169/0x1f0
[<0>] blkdev_readahead+0x18/0x30
[<0>] read_pages+0x7c/0x3b0
[<0>] page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x1ab/0x280
[<0>] force_page_cache_ra+0x9e/0x130
[<0>] page_cache_sync_ra+0x3b/0x110
[<0>] filemap_get_pages+0x143/0xa30
[<0>] filemap_read+0xdc/0x4b0
[<0>] blkdev_read_iter+0x75/0x200
[<0>] vfs_read+0x272/0x460
[<0>] ksys_read+0x7a/0x170
[<0>] __x64_sys_read+0x1c/0x30
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0xc6/0x230
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0x74

This is because reshape can't make progress.

For md/raid, the problem doesn't exist because register new sync_thread
doesn't rely on the IO to be done any more:

1) If array is read-only, it can switch to read-write by ioctl/sysfs;
2) md/raid never set MD_RECOVERY_WAIT;
3) If MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN is set, mddev_suspend() doesn't hold
'reconfig_mutex', hence it can be cleared and reshape can continue by
sysfs api 'sync_action'.

However, I'm not sure yet how to avoid the problem in dm-raid yet. This
patch on the one hand make sure raid_message() can't change
sync_thread() through raid_message() after presuspend(), on the other
hand detect the above 3 cases before wait for IO do be done in
dm_suspend(), and let dm-raid requeue those IO.
Published: 2024-05-01
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6816-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6817-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6817-2 Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6817-3 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6878-1 Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 7e-05}

epss

{'score': 8e-05}


Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Weaknesses CWE-667
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Linux Linux Kernel
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-11T20:07:45.296Z

Reserved: 2024-02-19T14:20:24.201Z

Link: CVE-2024-26962

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T00:21:05.628Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-01T06:15:12.527

Modified: 2024-12-23T13:39:33.543

Link: CVE-2024-26962

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-05-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-26962 - Bugzilla

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