CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43309
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md raid: fix hang when stopping arrays with metadata through dm-raid
When using device-mapper's dm-raid target, stopping a RAID array can cause
the system to hang under specific conditions.
This occurs when:
- A dm-raid managed device tree is suspended from top to bottom
(the top-level RAID device is suspended first, followed by its
underlying metadata and data devices)
- The top-level RAID device is then removed
Removing the top-level device triggers a hang in the following sequence:
the dm-raid destructor calls md_stop(), which tries to flush the
write-intent bitmap by writing to the metadata sub-devices. However, these
devices are already suspended, making them unable to complete the write-intent
operations and causing an indefinite block.
Fix:
- Prevent bitmap flushing when md_stop() is called from dm-raid
destructor context
and avoid a quiescing/unquescing cycle which could also cause I/O
- Still allow write-intent bitmap flushing when called from dm-raid
suspend context
This ensures that RAID array teardown can complete successfully even when the
underlying devices are in a suspended state.
This second patch uses md_is_rdwr() to distinguish between suspend and
destructor paths as elaborated on above.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.14.292 < 4.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.257 < 4.20)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.212 < 5.5)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.140 < 5.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.64 < 5.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19.6 < 6.0)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0.1 < 6.18.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24783dd06de870d646c25207bae186f78195f912 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/338378dfffbdbb8d37a18f0a0c0358812671f91e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63054027d95200b04f3cf624faa7817e0555d56a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cefcb9297fbdb6d94b61787b4f8d84f55b741470 Patch