linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-27023: md: Fix missing release of 'active

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Date: Wed,  1 May 2024 14:50:06 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-27023: md: Fix missing release of 'active_io' for flush

Description
===========

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

md: Fix missing release of 'active_io' for flush

submit_flushes
 atomic_set(&mddev->flush_pending, 1);
 rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev, mddev)
  atomic_inc(&mddev->flush_pending);
  bi->bi_end_io = md_end_flush
  submit_bio(bi);
                        /* flush io is done first */
                        md_end_flush
                         if (atomic_dec_and_test(&mddev->flush_pending))
                          percpu_ref_put(&mddev->active_io)
                          -> active_io is not released

 if (atomic_dec_and_test(&mddev->flush_pending))
  -> missing release of active_io

For consequence, mddev_suspend() will wait for 'active_io' to be zero
forever.

Fix this problem by releasing 'active_io' in submit_flushes() if
'flush_pending' is decreased to zero.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-27023 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.1.75 with commit f9f2d957a8ea and fixed in 6.1.80 with commit 6b2ff10390b1
	Issue introduced in 6.6.14 with commit 530cec617f5a and fixed in 6.6.19 with commit 02dad157ba11
	Issue introduced in 6.7.2 with commit c4c2345214b6 and fixed in 6.7.7 with commit 11f81438927f

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2024-27023
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/md/md.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b2ff10390b19a2364af622b6666b690443f9f3f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02dad157ba11064d073f5499dc33552b227d5d3a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11f81438927f84edfaaeb5d5f10856c3a1c1fc82
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/855678ed8534518e2b428bcbcec695de9ba248e8