Upstream information

CVE-2025-40146 at MITRE

Description

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

blk-mq: fix potential deadlock while nr_requests grown

Allocate and free sched_tags while queue is freezed can deadlock[1],
this is a long term problem, hence allocate memory before freezing
queue and free memory after queue is unfreezed.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0659ea8d-a463-47c8-9180-43c719e106eb@linux.ibm.com/

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1253346 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Nov 12 20:29:25 2025
CVE page last modified: Wed Nov 12 20:29:25 2025