CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-68348
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block: fix memory leak in __blkdev_issue_zero_pages
Move the fatal signal check before bio_alloc() to prevent a memory
leak when BLKDEV_ZERO_KILLABLE is set and a fatal signal is pending.
Previously, the bio was allocated before checking for a fatal signal.
If a signal was pending, the code would break out of the loop without
freeing or chaining the just-allocated bio, causing a memory leak.
This matches the pattern already used in __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes()
where the signal check precedes the allocation.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/453e4b0c84d0db1454ff0adf655d91179e6fca3a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7193407bc4457212fa38ec3aff9c640e63a8dbef git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7957635c679e8a01147163a3a4a1f16e1210fa03 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7e3f852a42d7cd8f1af2c330d9d153e30c8adcf git.kernel.org