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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-26899): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-26899): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/17/2024
Created
07/02/2024
Added
07/01/2024
Modified
07/15/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: fix deadlock between bd_link_disk_holder and partition scan 'open_mutex' of gendisk is used to protect open/close block devices. But in bd_link_disk_holder(), it is used to protect the creation of symlink between holding disk and slave bdev, which introduces some issues. When bd_link_disk_holder() is called, the driver is usually in the process of initialization/modification and may suspend submitting io. At this time, any io hold 'open_mutex', such as scanning partitions, can cause deadlocks. For example, in raid: T1 T2 bdev_open_by_dev lock open_mutex [1] ... efi_partition ... md_submit_bio md_ioctl mddev_syspend -> suspend all io md_add_new_disk bind_rdev_to_array bd_link_disk_holder try lock open_mutex [2] md_handle_request -> wait mddev_resume T1 scan partition, T2 add a new device to raid. T1 waits for T2 to resume mddev, but T2 waits for open_mutex held by T1. Deadlock occurs. Fix it by introducing a local mutex 'blk_holder_mutex' to replace 'open_mutex'.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1004-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1005-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1006-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1006-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1006-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1006-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1008-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1008-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1008-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1009-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-35-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-35-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-35-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-35-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-classic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-lts-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-24-04a
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-24-04

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