CVE-2024-57946 — virtio-blk: don't keep queue frozen during system suspend

Affected: Linux

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/ca16370e-d646-4eee-b9cc-87277c89c43c@samsung.com/

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.

USN-7379-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.11, linux-oracle, linux-realtime vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux-hwe-6.11

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Compute Acceleration Framework; - ACPI drivers; - Drivers core; - Ublk userspace block driver; - Virtio block driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework; - DMA engine subsystem; - EFI core; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Microsoft Hyper-V drivers; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - I3C subsystem; - IIO ADC drivers; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - IOMMU subsystem; - LED subsystem; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Microchip PCI driver; - MTD block device drivers; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - STMicroelectronics network drivers; - NVME drivers; - PCI subsystem; - PHY drivers; - Pin controllers subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - i.MX PM domains; - Power supply drivers; - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - i.MX SoC drivers; - SPI subsystem; - UFS subsystem; - USB Gadget drivers; - TDX Guest driver; - AFS file system; - BTRFS file system; - Ceph distributed file system; - File systems infrastructure; - F2FS file system; - JFFS…

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CVE-2024-57946 — virtio-blk: don't keep queue frozen during system suspend

USN-7379-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.11, linux-oracle, linux-realtime vulnerabilities