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GHSA-MH62-FV56-V5JJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-11-12 12:30 – Updated: 2025-11-12 12:30

Details

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

blk-mq: fix potential deadlock while nr_requests grown

Allocate and free sched_tags while queue is freezed can deadlock[1], this is a long term problem, hence allocate memory before freezing queue and free memory after queue is unfreezed.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0659ea8d-a463-47c8-9180-43c719e106eb@linux.ibm.com/

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CVE-2025-40146 (GCVE-0-2025-40146)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 10:23 – Updated: 2025-12-01 06:18

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: fix potential deadlock while nr_requests grown Allocate and free sched_tags while queue is freezed can deadlock[1], this is a long term problem, hence allocate memory before freezing queue and free memory after queue is unfreezed. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0659ea8d-a463-47c8-9180-43c719e106eb@linux.ibm.com/

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d26acf8477174d8e…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b86433721f46d9349…

Impacted products

Vendor

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Version

Linux

Affected: e3a2b3f931f59d5284abd13faf8bded726884ffd , < 8d26acf8477174d8ef690eb6affe13a630f586ae (git)
Affected: e3a2b3f931f59d5284abd13faf8bded726884ffd , < b86433721f46d934940528f28d49c1dedb690df1 (git)

Linux

Affected: 3.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-MH62-FV56-V5JJ

CVE-2025-40146 (GCVE-0-2025-40146)

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