CVE-2025-21807

block: fix queue freeze vs limits lock order in sysfs store methods

published February 27, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

block: fix queue freeze vs limits lock order in sysfs store methods

queue_attr_store() always freezes a device queue before calling the

attribute store operation. For attributes that control queue limits, the

store operation will also lock the queue limits with a call to

queue_limits_start_update(). However, some drivers (e.g. SCSI sd) may

need to issue commands to a device to obtain limit values from the

hardware with the queue limits locked. This creates a potential ABBA

deadlock situation if a user attempts to modify a limit (thus freezing

the device queue) while the device driver starts a revalidation of the

device queue limits.

Avoid such deadlock by not freezing the queue before calling the

->store_limit() method in struct queue_sysfs_entry and instead use the

queue_limits_commit_update_frozen helper to freeze the queue after taking

the limits lock.

This also removes taking the sysfs lock for the store_limit method as

it doesn't protect anything here, but creates even more nesting.

Hopefully it will go away from the actual sysfs methods entirely soon.

(commit log adapted from a similar patch from Damien Le Moal)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00150 · 3.8th percentile
Published
2025-02-27T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 FEB 20:00Z
    block: fix queue freeze vs limits lock order in sysfs store methods
    cvelistv5