ublk: fix deadlock when reading partition table (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-68823
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ublk: fix deadlock when reading partition table When one process(such as udev) opens ublk block device (e.g., to read the partition table via bdev_open()), a deadlock[1] can occur: 1. bdev_open() grabs disk->open_mutex 2. The process issues read I/O to ublk backend to read partition table 3. In __ublk_complete_rq(), blk_update_request() or blk_mq_end_request() runs bio->bi_end_io() callbacks 4. If this triggers fput() on file descriptor of ublk block device, the work may be deferred to current task's task work (see fput() implementation) 5. This eventually calls blkdev_release() from the same context 6. blkdev_release() tries to grab disk->open_mutex again 7. Deadlock: same task waiting for a mutex it already holds The fix is to run blk_update_request() and blk_mq_end_request() with bottom halves disabled. This forces blkdev_release() to run in kernel work-queue context instead of current task work context, and allows ublk server to make forward progress, and avoids the deadlock. [axboe: rewrite comment in ublk]

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 71f28f3136aff5890cd56de78abc673f8393cad9 < 27bb79b7717b2fbb111a1c13548b2786ee712dca ; affected 71f28f3136aff5890cd56de78abc673f8393cad9 < 64c0b7e2293757e8320f13434cd809f1c9257a62 ; affected 71f28f3136aff5890cd56de78abc673f8393cad9 < 9bcc47343ee0ef346aa7b2b460c8ff56bd882fe7 ; affected 71f28f3136aff5890cd56de78abc673f8393cad9 < 0460e09a614291f06c008443f47393c37b7358e7 ; affected 71f28f3136aff5890cd56de78abc673f8393cad9 < c258f5c4502c9667bccf5d76fa731ab9c96687c1
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.0 ; unaffected 0 < 6.0 ; unaffected 6.1.175 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.124 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.70 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.3 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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