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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21807"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-27T20:00:59.560Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-18T15:00:42.201Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21807"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21807.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21807"
title: "block: fix queue freeze vs limits lock order in sysfs store methods"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblock: fix queue freeze vs limits lock order in sysfs store methods\n\nqueue_attr_store() always freezes a device queue before calling the\nattribute store operation. For attributes that control queue limits, the\nstore operation will also lock the queue limits with a call to\nqueue_limits_start_update(). However, some drivers (e.g. SCSI sd) may\nneed to issue commands to a device to obtain limit values from the\nhardware with the queue limits locked. This creates a potential ABBA\ndeadlock situation if a user attempts to modify a limit (thus freezing\nthe device queue) while the device driver starts a revalidation of the\ndevice queue limits.\n\nAvoid such deadlock by not freezing the queue before calling the\n-\u003estore_limit() method in struct queue_sysfs_entry and instead use the\nqueue_limits_commit_update_frozen helper to freeze the queue after taking\nthe limits lock.\n\nThis also removes taking the sysfs lock for the store_limit method as\nit doesn't protect anything here, but creates even more nesting.\nHopefully it will go away from the actual sysfs methods entirely soon.\n\n(commit log adapted from a similar patch from  Damien Le Moal)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0327ca9d53bfbb0918867313049bba7046900f73","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1645cd7fd42c236c952e9228badcac4fea1829ea"},{"version":"0327ca9d53bfbb0918867313049bba7046900f73","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8985da5481562e96b95e94ed8e5cc9b6565eb82b"},{"version":"0327ca9d53bfbb0918867313049bba7046900f73","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c99f66e4084a62a2cc401c4704a84328aeddc9ec"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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