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CVE-2025-21850MEDIUM
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).
CWE-835 · CNA: Linux · CVSS v3.1 · 2 references · NVD status: Modified

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
DateEventDetail
December 29, 2024ReservedReserved by Linux
March 12, 2025PublishedPublished (CNA: Linux)
July 30, 2026RESCOREDRESCORED — CVE-2025-21850 (Linux). CVSS 9.8 → 5.5 (NVD).

Affected

Affected products and packages — 2 rows
VendorProduct / PackageEcosystemVersion introducedFixed
LinuxLinux74d16965d7ac378d28ebd833ae6d6a097186a4ec
LinuxLinux6.136.13.5

Weaknesses

CWE-835

References (2)

Related

Authoritative record: CVE-2025-21850 at cve.org

Vendors: linux

Weaknesses: CWE-835

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