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Linux Linux — nvmet: Fix crash when a namespace is disabled
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0040 33.7 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 74d16965d7ac378d28ebd833ae6d6a097186a4ec – —
Linux 6.13 – 6.13.5
TIMELINE
Dec 29 Reserved by Linux
Mar 12 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-21850 (Linux). CVSS 9.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvmet: Fix crash when a namespace is disabled
The namespace percpu counter protects pending I/O, and we can
only safely diable the namespace once the counter drop to zero.
Otherwise we end up with a crash when running blktests/nvme/058
(eg for loop transport):
[ 2352.930426] [ T53909] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000005: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
[ 2352.930431] [ T53909] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]
[ 2352.930434] [ T53909] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 53909 Comm: kworker/u16:5 Tainted: G W 6.13.0-rc6 #232
[ 2352.930438] [ T53909] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[ 2352.930440] [ T53909] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014
[ 2352.930443] [ T53909] Workqueue: nvmet-wq nvme_loop_execute_work [nvme_loop]
[ 2352.930449] [ T53909] RIP: 0010:blkcg_set_ioprio+0x44/0x180
as the queue is already torn down when calling submit_bio();
So we need to init the percpu counter in nvmet_ns_enable(), and
wait for it to drop to zero in nvmet_ns_disable() to avoid having
I/O pending after the namespace has been disabled.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| December 29, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| March 12, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-21850 (Linux). CVSS 9.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 74d16965d7ac378d28ebd833ae6d6a097186a4ec | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.13 | 6.13.5 |
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