CVE-2025-21817
kernel: block: mark GFP_NOIO around sysfs ->store()
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · February 27, 2025
Updated · October 29, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block: mark GFP_NOIO around sysfs ->store()
sysfs ->store is called with queue freezed, meantime we have several ->store() callbacks(update_nr_requests, wbt, scheduler) to allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL which may run into direct reclaim code path, then potential deadlock can be caused.
Fix the issue by marking NOIO around sysfs ->store()
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-833 · Deadlock