CVE-2024-27435

2024-05-1713:15:58

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

web.nvd.nist.gov

linux kernel

fixed

cve-2024-27435

reconnection failure

nvme

rdma

reserved tag allocation

6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

JSON

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

nvme: fix reconnection fail due to reserved tag allocation

We found a issue on production environment while using NVMe over RDMA,
admin_q reconnect failed forever while remote target and network is ok.
After dig into it, we found it may caused by a ABBA deadlock due to tag
allocation. In my case, the tag was hold by a keep alive request
waiting inside admin_q, as we quiesced admin_q while reset ctrl, so the
request maked as idle and will not process before reset success. As
fabric_q shares tagset with admin_q, while reconnect remote target, we
need a tag for connect command, but the only one reserved tag was held
by keep alive command which waiting inside admin_q. As a result, we
failed to reconnect admin_q forever. In order to fix this issue, I
think we should keep two reserved tags for admin queue.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.12–6.1.83

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.2.0–6.6.23

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.7.0–6.7.11

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.8.0–6.8.2

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.9.0≥

VendorProductVersionCPE
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/nvme/host/core.c",
      "drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.h"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "ed01fee283a0",
        "lessThan": "149afee5c741",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "ed01fee283a0",
        "lessThan": "ff2f90f88d78",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "ed01fee283a0",
        "lessThan": "6851778504cd",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "ed01fee283a0",
        "lessThan": "262da920896e",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "ed01fee283a0",
        "lessThan": "de105068fead",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/nvme/host/core.c",
      "drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.h"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "5.12",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "5.12",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.1.83",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.6.23",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.7.11",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.7.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.8.2",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.8.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.9",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]