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Message-ID: <2025121630-CVE-2025-68178-6a73@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:43:39 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-68178: blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
Following deadlock can be triggered easily by lockdep:
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.17.0-rc3-00124-ga12c2658ced0 #1665 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
check/1334 is trying to acquire lock:
ff1100011d9d0678 (&q->sysfs_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: blk_unregister_queue+0x53/0x180
but task is already holding lock:
ff1100011d9d00e0 (&q->q_usage_counter(queue)#3){++++}-{0:0}, at: del_gendisk+0xba/0x110
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
-> #2 (&q->q_usage_counter(queue)#3){++++}-{0:0}:
blk_queue_enter+0x40b/0x470
blkg_conf_prep+0x7b/0x3c0
tg_set_limit+0x10a/0x3e0
cgroup_file_write+0xc6/0x420
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x189/0x280
vfs_write+0x256/0x490
ksys_write+0x83/0x190
__x64_sys_write+0x21/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x4608/0x4630
do_syscall_64+0xdb/0x6b0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
-> #1 (&q->rq_qos_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}:
__mutex_lock+0xd8/0xf50
mutex_lock_nested+0x2b/0x40
wbt_init+0x17e/0x280
wbt_enable_default+0xe9/0x140
blk_register_queue+0x1da/0x2e0
__add_disk+0x38c/0x5d0
add_disk_fwnode+0x89/0x250
device_add_disk+0x18/0x30
virtblk_probe+0x13a3/0x1800
virtio_dev_probe+0x389/0x610
really_probe+0x136/0x620
__driver_probe_device+0xb3/0x230
driver_probe_device+0x2f/0xe0
__driver_attach+0x158/0x250
bus_for_each_dev+0xa9/0x130
driver_attach+0x26/0x40
bus_add_driver+0x178/0x3d0
driver_register+0x7d/0x1c0
__register_virtio_driver+0x2c/0x60
virtio_blk_init+0x6f/0xe0
do_one_initcall+0x94/0x540
kernel_init_freeable+0x56a/0x7b0
kernel_init+0x2b/0x270
ret_from_fork+0x268/0x4c0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
-> #0 (&q->sysfs_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}:
__lock_acquire+0x1835/0x2940
lock_acquire+0xf9/0x450
__mutex_lock+0xd8/0xf50
mutex_lock_nested+0x2b/0x40
blk_unregister_queue+0x53/0x180
__del_gendisk+0x226/0x690
del_gendisk+0xba/0x110
sd_remove+0x49/0xb0 [sd_mod]
device_remove+0x87/0xb0
device_release_driver_internal+0x11e/0x230
device_release_driver+0x1a/0x30
bus_remove_device+0x14d/0x220
device_del+0x1e1/0x5a0
__scsi_remove_device+0x1ff/0x2f0
scsi_remove_device+0x37/0x60
sdev_store_delete+0x77/0x100
dev_attr_store+0x1f/0x40
sysfs_kf_write+0x65/0x90
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x189/0x280
vfs_write+0x256/0x490
ksys_write+0x83/0x190
__x64_sys_write+0x21/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x4608/0x4630
do_syscall_64+0xdb/0x6b0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
other info that might help us debug this:
Chain exists of:
&q->sysfs_lock --> &q->rq_qos_mutex --> &q->q_usage_counter(queue)#3
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(&q->q_usage_counter(queue)#3);
lock(&q->rq_qos_mutex);
lock(&q->q_usage_counter(queue)#3);
lock(&q->sysfs_lock);
Root cause is that queue_usage_counter is grabbed with rq_qos_mutex
held in blkg_conf_prep(), while queue should be freezed before
rq_qos_mutex from other context.
The blk_queue_enter() from blkg_conf_prep() is used to protect against
policy deactivation, which is already protected with blkcg_mutex, hence
convert blk_queue_enter() to blkcg_mutex to fix this problem. Meanwhile,
consider that blkcg_mutex is held after queue is freezed from policy
deactivation, also convert blkg_alloc() to use GFP_NOIO.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-68178 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Fixed in 6.6.117 with commit e1729523759cda2c0afb76b1c88e0d2f2ef5b7cb
Fixed in 6.12.58 with commit 56ac639d6fa6fbb99caee74ee1c7276fc9bb47ed
Fixed in 6.17.8 with commit 0585b24d71197dd9ee8cf79c168a31628c631960
Fixed in 6.18 with commit 5d726c4dbeeddef612e6bed27edd29733f4d13af
Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.
Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-68178
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.
Affected files
==============
The file(s) affected by this issue are:
block/blk-cgroup.c
Mitigation
==========
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1729523759cda2c0afb76b1c88e0d2f2ef5b7cb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56ac639d6fa6fbb99caee74ee1c7276fc9bb47ed
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0585b24d71197dd9ee8cf79c168a31628c631960
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d726c4dbeeddef612e6bed27edd29733f4d13af
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