CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-71225
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-02-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362, CWE-367
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md: suspend array while updating raid_disks via sysfs
In raid1_reshape(), freeze_array() is called before modifying the r1bio
memory pool (conf->r1bio_pool) and conf->raid_disks, and
unfreeze_array() is called after the update is completed.
However, freeze_array() only waits until nr_sync_pending and
(nr_pending - nr_queued) of all buckets reaches zero. When an I/O error
occurs, nr_queued is increased and the corresponding r1bio is queued to
either retry_list or bio_end_io_list. As a result, freeze_array() may
unblock before these r1bios are released.
This can lead to a situation where conf->raid_disks and the mempool have
already been updated while queued r1bios, allocated with the old
raid_disks value, are later released. Consequently, free_r1bio() may
access memory out of bounds in put_all_bios() and release r1bios of the
wrong size to the new mempool, potentially causing issues with the
mempool as well.
Since only normal I/O might increase nr_queued while an I/O error occurs,
suspending the array avoids this issue.
Note: Updating raid_disks via ioctl SET_ARRAY_INFO already suspends
the array. Therefore, we suspend the array when updating raid_disks
via sysfs to avoid this issue too.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.4.59 < 3.5)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.9.7 < 3.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.10.1 < 6.12.70)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.10)
• linux linux kernel 3.10
• linux linux kernel 6.19
Related
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0107b18cd8ac17eb3e54786adc05a85cdbb6ef22 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/165d1359f945b72c5f90088f60d48ff46115269e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cc583653bbe050bacd1cadcc9776d39bf449740 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/863b9b7be824a6b2c0587532d3ece3022c6dd451 git.kernel.org