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GHSA-W8WP-W464-6XR8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-01-14 15:33 – Updated: 2026-01-14 15:33

Details

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

md/raid5: fix possible null-pointer dereferences in raid5_store_group_thread_cnt()

The variable mddev->private is first assigned to conf and then checked:

conf = mddev->private; if (!conf) ...

If conf is NULL, then mddev->private is also NULL. In this case, null-pointer dereferences can occur when calling raid5_quiesce():

raid5_quiesce(mddev, true); raid5_quiesce(mddev, false);

since mddev->private is assigned to conf again in raid5_quiesce(), and conf is dereferenced in several places, for example:

conf->quiesce = 0; wake_up(&conf->wait_for_quiescent);

To fix this issue, the function should unlock mddev and return before invoking raid5_quiesce() when conf is NULL, following the existing pattern in raid5_change_consistency_policy().

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CVE-2025-71135 (GCVE-0-2025-71135)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-14 15:07 – Updated: 2026-01-14 15:07

Title

md/raid5: fix possible null-pointer dereferences in raid5_store_group_thread_cnt()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid5: fix possible null-pointer dereferences in raid5_store_group_thread_cnt() The variable mddev->private is first assigned to conf and then checked: conf = mddev->private; if (!conf) ... If conf is NULL, then mddev->private is also NULL. In this case, null-pointer dereferences can occur when calling raid5_quiesce(): raid5_quiesce(mddev, true); raid5_quiesce(mddev, false); since mddev->private is assigned to conf again in raid5_quiesce(), and conf is dereferenced in several places, for example: conf->quiesce = 0; wake_up(&conf->wait_for_quiescent); To fix this issue, the function should unlock mddev and return before invoking raid5_quiesce() when conf is NULL, following the existing pattern in raid5_change_consistency_policy().

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20597b7229aea8b5b…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5abb6af905de6b2f…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ad6ef91d8745d04a…

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Linux

Affected: be19e6e4339d1579d5f2fae8ce4facf9521dbbfc , < 20597b7229aea8b5bc45cd92097640257c7fc33b (git)
Affected: fa1944bbe6220eb929e2c02e5e8706b908565711 , < e5abb6af905de6b2fead8a0b3f32ab0b81468a01 (git)
Affected: fa1944bbe6220eb929e2c02e5e8706b908565711 , < 7ad6ef91d8745d04aff9cce7bdbc6320d8e05fe9 (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.64 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.4 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-W8WP-W464-6XR8

CVE-2025-71135 (GCVE-0-2025-71135)

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