CVE-2025-68823 (GCVE-0-2025-68823)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-13 15:29 – Updated: 2026-06-01 16:05
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Title
ublk: fix deadlock when reading partition table
Summary
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]
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Impacted products
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Linux Linux Affected: 71f28f3136aff5890cd56de78abc673f8393cad9 , < 27bb79b7717b2fbb111a1c13548b2786ee712dca (git)
Affected: 71f28f3136aff5890cd56de78abc673f8393cad9 , < 64c0b7e2293757e8320f13434cd809f1c9257a62 (git)
Affected: 71f28f3136aff5890cd56de78abc673f8393cad9 , < 9bcc47343ee0ef346aa7b2b460c8ff56bd882fe7 (git)
Affected: 71f28f3136aff5890cd56de78abc673f8393cad9 , < 0460e09a614291f06c008443f47393c37b7358e7 (git)
Affected: 71f28f3136aff5890cd56de78abc673f8393cad9 , < c258f5c4502c9667bccf5d76fa731ab9c96687c1 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.124 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.70 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.3 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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