Vulnerability CVE-2024-42294
Published: 2024-08-17

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

block: fix deadlock between sd_remove & sd_release

Our test report the following hung task:

[ 2538.459400] INFO: task "kworker/0:0":7 blocked for more than 188 seconds.
[ 2538.459427] Call trace:
[ 2538.459430] __switch_to+0x174/0x338
[ 2538.459436] __schedule+0x628/0x9c4
[ 2538.459442] schedule+0x7c/0xe8
[ 2538.459447] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x24/0x40
[ 2538.459453] __mutex_lock+0x3ec/0xf04
[ 2538.459456] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x14/0x24
[ 2538.459459] mutex_lock+0x30/0xd8
[ 2538.459462] del_gendisk+0xdc/0x350
[ 2538.459466] sd_remove+0x30/0x60
[ 2538.459470] device_release_driver_internal+0x1c4/0x2c4
[ 2538.459474] device_release_driver+0x18/0x28
[ 2538.459478] bus_remove_device+0x15c/0x174
[ 2538.459483] device_del+0x1d0/0x358
[ 2538.459488] __scsi_remove_device+0xa8/0x198
[ 2538.459493] scsi_forget_host+0x50/0x70
[ 2538.459497] scsi_remove_host+0x80/0x180
[ 2538.459502] usb_stor_disconnect+0x68/0xf4
[ 2538.459506] usb_unbind_interface+0xd4/0x280
[ 2538.459510] device_release_driver_internal+0x1c4/0x2c4
[ 2538.459514] device_release_driver+0x18/0x28
[ 2538.459518] bus_remove_device+0x15c/0x174
[ 2538.459523] device_del+0x1d0/0x358
[ 2538.459528] usb_disable_device+0x84/0x194
[ 2538.459532] usb_disconnect+0xec/0x300
[ 2538.459537] hub_event+0xb80/0x1870
[ 2538.459541] process_scheduled_works+0x248/0x4dc
[ 2538.459545] worker_thread+0x244/0x334
[ 2538.459549] kthread+0x114/0x1bc

[ 2538.461001] INFO: task "fsck.":15415 blocked for more than 188 seconds.
[ 2538.461014] Call trace:
[ 2538.461016] __switch_to+0x174/0x338
[ 2538.461021] __schedule+0x628/0x9c4
[ 2538.461025] schedule+0x7c/0xe8
[ 2538.461030] blk_queue_enter+0xc4/0x160
[ 2538.461034] blk_mq_alloc_request+0x120/0x1d4
[ 2538.461037] scsi_execute_cmd+0x7c/0x23c
[ 2538.461040] ioctl_internal_command+0x5c/0x164
[ 2538.461046] scsi_set_medium_removal+0x5c/0xb0
[ 2538.461051] sd_release+0x50/0x94
[ 2538.461054] blkdev_put+0x190/0x28c
[ 2538.461058] blkdev_release+0x28/0x40
[ 2538.461063] __fput+0xf8/0x2a8
[ 2538.461066] __fput_sync+0x28/0x5c
[ 2538.461070] __arm64_sys_close+0x84/0xe8
[ 2538.461073] invoke_syscall+0x58/0x114
[ 2538.461078] el0_svc_common+0xac/0xe0
[ 2538.461082] do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
[ 2538.461087] el0_svc+0x38/0x68
[ 2538.461090] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x68/0xbc
[ 2538.461093] el0t_64_sync+0x1a8/0x1ac

T1: T2:
sd_remove
del_gendisk
__blk_mark_disk_dead
blk_freeze_queue_start
++q->mq_freeze_depth
bdev_release
mutex_lock(&disk->open_mutex)
sd_release
scsi_execute_cmd
blk_queue_enter
wait_event(!q->mq_freeze_depth)
mutex_lock(&disk->open_mutex)

SCSI does not set GD_OWNS_QUEUE, so QUEUE_FLAG_DYING is not set in
this scenario. This is a classic ABBA deadlock. To fix the deadlock,
make sure we don't try to acquire disk->open_mutex after freezing
the queue.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a5625a83eac91fdff1d5f0202ecfc45a31983c9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5418f48a93b69ed9e6a2281eee06b412f14a544
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e04da2dc7013af50ed3a2beb698d5168d1e594b
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