CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-43309

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-05-08 Modified 2026-10-21 Official page ↗
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

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