CVE-2024-43914 Information

Aug 27, 2024 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md/raid5: avoid BUG_ON() while continue reshape after reassembling

Currently mdadm support –revert-reshape to abort the reshape while reassembling as the test 07revert-grow. However following BUG_ON() can be triggerred by the test:

kernel BUG at drivers/md/raid5.c:6278! invalid opcode: 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP PTI irq event stamp: 158985 CPU: 6 PID: 891 Comm: md0_reshape Not tainted 6.9.0-03335-g7592a0b0049a 94 RIP: 0010:reshape_request+0x3f1/0xe60 Call Trace: raid5_sync_request+0x43d/0x550 md_do_sync+0xb7a/0x2110 md_thread+0x294/0x2b0 kthread+0x147/0x1c0 ret_from_fork+0x59/0x70 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Root cause is that –revert-reshape update the raid_disks from 5 to 4 while reshape position is still set and after reassembling the array reshape position will be read from super block then during reshape the checking of ‘writepos’ that is caculated by old reshape position will fail.

Fix this panic the easy way first by converting the BUG_ON() to WARN_ON() and stop the reshape if checkings fail.

Noted that mdadm must fix –revert-shape as well and probably md/raid should enhance metadata validation as well however this means reassemble will fail and there must be user tools to fix the wrong metadata.

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