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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21850"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-12T09:42:05.761Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:54:53.966Z"
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-2025-21850"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21850.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21850"
title: "nvmet: Fix crash when a namespace is disabled"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvmet: Fix crash when a namespace is disabled\n\nThe namespace percpu counter protects pending I/O, and we can\nonly safely diable the namespace once the counter drop to zero.\nOtherwise we end up with a crash when running blktests/nvme/058\n(eg for loop transport):\n\n[ 2352.930426] [  T53909] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000005: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\n[ 2352.930431] [  T53909] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]\n[ 2352.930434] [  T53909] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 53909 Comm: kworker/u16:5 Tainted: G        W          6.13.0-rc6 #232\n[ 2352.930438] [  T53909] Tainted: [W]=WARN\n[ 2352.930440] [  T53909] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014\n[ 2352.930443] [  T53909] Workqueue: nvmet-wq nvme_loop_execute_work [nvme_loop]\n[ 2352.930449] [  T53909] RIP: 0010:blkcg_set_ioprio+0x44/0x180\n\nas the queue is already torn down when calling submit_bio();\n\nSo we need to init the percpu counter in nvmet_ns_enable(), and\nwait for it to drop to zero in nvmet_ns_disable() to avoid having\nI/O pending after the namespace has been disabled."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"74d16965d7ac378d28ebd833ae6d6a097186a4ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc0607594f6813342b27c752c6fb6f6eb9980cb5"},{"version":"74d16965d7ac378d28ebd833ae6d6a097186a4ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4082326807072b71496501b6a0c55ffe8d5092a5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.13.5","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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