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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmd/raid10: fix deadlock with check operation and nowait requests\n\nWhen an array check is running it will raise the barrier at which point\nnormal requests will become blocked and increment the nr_pending value to\nsignal there is work pending inside of wait_barrier(). NOWAIT requests\ndo not block and so will return immediately with an error, and additionally\ndo not increment nr_pending in wait_barrier(). Upstream change commit\n43806c3d5b9b (\"raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request\") added a\ncall to raid_end_bio_io() to fix a memory leak when NOWAIT requests hit\nthis condition. raid_end_bio_io() eventually calls allow_barrier() and\nit will unconditionally do an atomic_dec_and_test(\u0026conf-\u003enr_pending) even\nthough the corresponding increment on nr_pending didn\u0027t happen in the\nNOWAIT case.\n\nThis can be easily seen by starting a check operation while an application\nis doing nowait IO on the same array. This results in a deadlocked state\ndue to nr_pending value underflowing and so the md resync thread gets stuck\nwaiting for nr_pending to == 0.\n\nOutput of r10conf state of the array when we hit this condition:\n\ncrash\u003e struct r10conf\n\tbarrier = 1,\n        nr_pending = {\n          counter = -41\n        },\n        nr_waiting = 15,\n        nr_queued = 0,\n\nExample of md_sync thread stuck waiting on raise_barrier() and other\nrequests stuck in wait_barrier():\n\nmd1_resync\n[\u003c0\u003e] raise_barrier+0xce/0x1c0\n[\u003c0\u003e] raid10_sync_request+0x1ca/0x1ed0\n[\u003c0\u003e] md_do_sync+0x779/0x1110\n[\u003c0\u003e] md_thread+0x90/0x160\n[\u003c0\u003e] kthread+0xbe/0xf0\n[\u003c0\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50\n[\u003c0\u003e] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nkworker/u1040:2+flush-253:4\n[\u003c0\u003e] wait_barrier+0x1de/0x220\n[\u003c0\u003e] regular_request_wait+0x30/0x180\n[\u003c0\u003e] raid10_make_request+0x261/0x1000\n[\u003c0\u003e] md_handle_request+0x13b/0x230\n[\u003c0\u003e] __submit_bio+0x107/0x1f0\n[\u003c0\u003e] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x16f/0x390\n[\u003c0\u003e] ext4_io_submit+0x24/0x40\n[\u003c0\u003e] ext4_do_writepages+0x254/0xc80\n[\u003c0\u003e] ext4_writepages+0x84/0x120\n[\u003c0\u003e] do_writepages+0x7a/0x260\n[\u003c0\u003e] __writeback_single_inode+0x3d/0x300\n[\u003c0\u003e] writeback_sb_inodes+0x1dd/0x470\n[\u003c0\u003e] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x4c/0xe0\n[\u003c0\u003e] wb_writeback+0x18b/0x2d0\n[\u003c0\u003e] wb_workfn+0x2a1/0x400\n[\u003c0\u003e] process_one_work+0x149/0x330\n[\u003c0\u003e] worker_thread+0x2d2/0x410\n[\u003c0\u003e] kthread+0xbe/0xf0\n[\u003c0\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50\n[\u003c0\u003e] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30"
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  "id": "CVE-2026-46050",
  "lastModified": "2026-05-27T14:48:03.013",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2026-05-27T14:17:24.547",
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    "nvd_published_at": "2026-05-27T14:17:24Z",
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  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmd/raid10: fix deadlock with check operation and nowait requests\n\nWhen an array check is running it will raise the barrier at which point\nnormal requests will become blocked and increment the nr_pending value to\nsignal there is work pending inside of wait_barrier(). NOWAIT requests\ndo not block and so will return immediately with an error, and additionally\ndo not increment nr_pending in wait_barrier(). Upstream change commit\n43806c3d5b9b (\"raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request\") added a\ncall to raid_end_bio_io() to fix a memory leak when NOWAIT requests hit\nthis condition. raid_end_bio_io() eventually calls allow_barrier() and\nit will unconditionally do an atomic_dec_and_test(\u0026conf-\u003enr_pending) even\nthough the corresponding increment on nr_pending didn\u0027t happen in the\nNOWAIT case.\n\nThis can be easily seen by starting a check operation while an application\nis doing nowait IO on the same array. This results in a deadlocked state\ndue to nr_pending value underflowing and so the md resync thread gets stuck\nwaiting for nr_pending to == 0.\n\nOutput of r10conf state of the array when we hit this condition:\n\ncrash\u003e struct r10conf\n\tbarrier = 1,\n        nr_pending = {\n          counter = -41\n        },\n        nr_waiting = 15,\n        nr_queued = 0,\n\nExample of md_sync thread stuck waiting on raise_barrier() and other\nrequests stuck in wait_barrier():\n\nmd1_resync\n[\u003c0\u003e] raise_barrier+0xce/0x1c0\n[\u003c0\u003e] raid10_sync_request+0x1ca/0x1ed0\n[\u003c0\u003e] md_do_sync+0x779/0x1110\n[\u003c0\u003e] md_thread+0x90/0x160\n[\u003c0\u003e] kthread+0xbe/0xf0\n[\u003c0\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50\n[\u003c0\u003e] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nkworker/u1040:2+flush-253:4\n[\u003c0\u003e] wait_barrier+0x1de/0x220\n[\u003c0\u003e] regular_request_wait+0x30/0x180\n[\u003c0\u003e] raid10_make_request+0x261/0x1000\n[\u003c0\u003e] md_handle_request+0x13b/0x230\n[\u003c0\u003e] __submit_bio+0x107/0x1f0\n[\u003c0\u003e] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x16f/0x390\n[\u003c0\u003e] ext4_io_submit+0x24/0x40\n[\u003c0\u003e] ext4_do_writepages+0x254/0xc80\n[\u003c0\u003e] ext4_writepages+0x84/0x120\n[\u003c0\u003e] do_writepages+0x7a/0x260\n[\u003c0\u003e] __writeback_single_inode+0x3d/0x300\n[\u003c0\u003e] writeback_sb_inodes+0x1dd/0x470\n[\u003c0\u003e] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x4c/0xe0\n[\u003c0\u003e] wb_writeback+0x18b/0x2d0\n[\u003c0\u003e] wb_workfn+0x2a1/0x400\n[\u003c0\u003e] process_one_work+0x149/0x330\n[\u003c0\u003e] worker_thread+0x2d2/0x410\n[\u003c0\u003e] kthread+0xbe/0xf0\n[\u003c0\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50\n[\u003c0\u003e] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30",
  "id": "GHSA-7v6r-2w32-rrq7",
  "modified": "2026-05-27T15:33:22Z",
  "published": "2026-05-27T15:33:22Z",
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