Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Move scsi_host_busy() out of host lock for waking up EH handler Inside scsi_eh_wakeup(), scsi_host_busy() is called & checked with host lock every time for deciding if error handler kthread needs to be waken up. This can be too heavy in case of recovery, such as: - N hardware queues - queue depth is M for each hardware queue - each scsi_host_busy() iterates over (N * M) tag/requests If recovery is triggered in case that all requests are in-flight, each scsi_eh_wakeup() is strictly serialized, when scsi_eh_wakeup() is called for the last in-flight request, scsi_host_busy() has been run for (N * M - 1) times, and request has been iterated for (N*M - 1) * (N * M) times. If both N and M are big enough, hard lockup can be triggered on acquiring host lock, and it is observed on mpi3mr(128 hw queues, queue depth 8169). Fix the issue by calling scsi_host_busy() outside the host lock. We don't need the host lock for getting busy count because host the lock never covers that. [mkp: Drop unnecessary 'busy' variables pointed out by Bart]

Severity

 

CVSS Version 3.x CVSS Version 2.0

CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST: NVD

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CVSS 2.0 Severity and Metrics:

NIST: NVD

Base Score: N/A

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Note: NVD Analysts have not published a CVSS score for this CVE at this time. NVD Analysts use publicly available information at the time of analysis to associate CVSS vector strings.

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

scsi: core: Move scsi_host_busy() out of host lock for waking up EH handler

Inside scsi_eh_wakeup(), scsi_host_busy() is called & checked with host
lock every time for deciding if error handler kthread needs to be waken up.

This can be too heavy in case of recovery, such as:

 - N hardware queues

 - queue depth is M for each hardware queue

 - each scsi_host_busy() iterates over (N * M) tag/requests

If recovery is triggered

Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07e3ca0f17f579491b5f54e9ed05173d6c1d6fcb [No types assigned]

Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4373534a9850627a2695317944898eb1283a2db0 [No types assigned]

Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65ead8468c21c2676d4d06f50b46beffdea69df1 [No types assigned]

Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d37c1c81419fdef66ebd0747cf76fb8b7d979059 [No types assigned]

Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db6338f45971b4285ea368432a84033690eaf53c [No types assigned]

Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5944853f7a961fedc1227dc8f60393f8936d37c [No types assigned]