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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68823"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-13T15:29:25.392Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-01T16:05:45.871Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
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-2025-68823"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68823.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68823"
title: "ublk: fix deadlock when reading partition table"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nublk: fix deadlock when reading partition table\n\nWhen one process(such as udev) opens ublk block device (e.g., to read\nthe partition table via bdev_open()), a deadlock[1] can occur:\n\n1. bdev_open() grabs disk-\u003eopen_mutex\n2. The process issues read I/O to ublk backend to read partition table\n3. In __ublk_complete_rq(), blk_update_request() or blk_mq_end_request()\n   runs bio-\u003ebi_end_io() callbacks\n4. If this triggers fput() on file descriptor of ublk block device, the\n   work may be deferred to current task's task work (see fput() implementation)\n5. This eventually calls blkdev_release() from the same context\n6. blkdev_release() tries to grab disk-\u003eopen_mutex again\n7. Deadlock: same task waiting for a mutex it already holds\n\nThe fix is to run blk_update_request() and blk_mq_end_request() with bottom\nhalves disabled. This forces blkdev_release() to run in kernel work-queue\ncontext instead of current task work context, and allows ublk server to make\nforward progress, and avoids the deadlock.\n\n[axboe: rewrite comment in ublk]"
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