CVE-2025-40146

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/

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxe3a2b3f931f59d5284abd13faf8bded726884ffd < 8d26acf8477174d8ef690eb6affe13a630f586aeaffected
LinuxLinuxe3a2b3f931f59d5284abd13faf8bded726884ffd < b86433721f46d934940528f28d49c1dedb690df1affected
LinuxLinux3.16affected
LinuxLinux0 < 3.16unaffected
LinuxLinux6.17.3 <= 6.17.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

References