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Tracker / CVE-2024-57946

CVE-2024-57946

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-blk: don't keep queue frozen during system suspend Commit 4ce6e2db00de ("virtio-blk: Ensure no requests in virtqueues before deleting vqs.") replaces queue quiesce with queue freeze in virtio-blk's PM callbacks. And the motivation is to drain inflight IOs before suspending. block layer's queue freeze looks very handy, but it is also easy to cause deadlock, such as, any attempt to call into bio_queue_enter() may run into deadlock if the queue is frozen in current context. There are all kinds of ->suspend() called in suspend context, so keeping queue frozen in the whole suspend context isn't one good idea. And Marek reported lockdep warning[1] caused by virtio-blk's freeze queue in virtblk_freeze(). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/[email protected]/ Given the motivation is to drain in-flight IOs, it can be done by calling freeze & unfreeze, meantime restore to previous behavior by keeping queue quiesced during suspend.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 5.4.289
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.176
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.123
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.233
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.69
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.8

Analysis

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