CVE-2025-68373 (GCVE-0-2025-68373)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:33 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
md: avoid repeated calls to del_gendisk
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md: avoid repeated calls to del_gendisk
There is a uaf problem which is found by case 23rdev-lifetime:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000122
RIP: 0010:bdi_unregister+0x4b/0x170
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__del_gendisk+0x356/0x3e0
mddev_unlock+0x351/0x360
rdev_attr_store+0x217/0x280
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x14a/0x210
vfs_write+0x29e/0x550
ksys_write+0x74/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x380
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff5250a177e
The sequence is:
1. rdev remove path gets reconfig_mutex
2. rdev remove path release reconfig_mutex in mddev_unlock
3. md stop calls do_md_stop and sets MD_DELETED
4. rdev remove path calls del_gendisk because MD_DELETED is set
5. md stop path release reconfig_mutex and calls del_gendisk again
So there is a race condition we should resolve. This patch adds a
flag MD_DO_DELETE to avoid the race condition.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
9e59d609763f70a992a8f3808dabcce60f14eb5c , < b4c5cf406062ad44cd178269571530c6435b2f3b
(git)
Affected: 9e59d609763f70a992a8f3808dabcce60f14eb5c , < f0fae1debeb9102398ddf2ef69b4f5d395afafed (git) Affected: 9e59d609763f70a992a8f3808dabcce60f14eb5c , < 90e3bb44c0a86e245d8e5c6520206fa113acb1ee (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.13 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.2 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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