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: md0reshape Not tainted 6.9.0-03335-g7592a0b0049a #94 RIP: 0010:reshaperequest+0x3f1/0xe60 Call Trace: <TASK> raid5syncrequest+0x43d/0x550 mddosync+0xb7a/0x2110 mdthread+0x294/0x2b0 kthread+0x147/0x1c0 retfromfork+0x59/0x70 retfromforkasm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK>
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 BUGON() to WARNON(), 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.