CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-68218

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.46%

37th percentile - higher than 37% of all known CVEs

Summary

A lockdep WARN was found in the NVMe multipath driver in the Linux kernel due to partition scan work. The dependency among open_mutex, kblockd workqueue, and partition scan can lead to a deadlock.

Risk Assessment

Potential deadlock can cause system hangs or I/O operation failures, affecting NVMe device availability.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that moves partition scan work from kblockd to nvme_wq to avoid deadlock.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-multipath: fix lockdep WARN due to partition scan work Blktests test cases nvme/014, 057 and 058 fail occasionally due to a lockdep WARN. As reported in the Closes tag URL, the WARN indicates that a deadlock can happen due to the dependency among disk->open_mutex, kblockd workqueue completion and partition_scan_work completion. To avoid the lockdep WARN and the potential deadlock, cut the dependency by running the partition_scan_work not by kblockd workqueue but by nvme_wq.

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