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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68173"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:42.889Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:00:14.047Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68173"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68173.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68173"
title: "ublk: wait on ublk_dev_ready() instead of ub-\u003ecompletion"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nublk: wait on ublk_dev_ready() instead of ub-\u003ecompletion\n\nub-\u003ecompletion is only re-armed by a successful START_USER_RECOVERY. If\nthe ublk server sends END_USER_RECOVERY without one - e.g. its START\nfailed with -EBUSY and the error was ignored - the wait is satisfied by\nthe stale completion of the previous recovery cycle, and the device is\nmarked LIVE and the requeue list kicked while the FETCH stream is still\nrunning and ubq-\u003ecanceling is still set. The kick redispatches a\npreviously requeued request, __ublk_queue_rq_common() sees -\u003ecanceling\nand parks it again via __ublk_abort_rq(), and after the last FETCH\nclears -\u003ecanceling nothing ever kicks the requeue list again: the\nrequest is stranded there while holding its tag. If it is the flush\nmachinery's flush_rq, every subsequent fsync piles up in uninterruptible\nsleep and teardown hangs on tag draining. This matches a report of a\nlost PREFLUSH with ext4 on top of ublk after daemon crash recovery.\n\nub-\u003ecompletion is an edge-triggered latch used as a proxy for the level\ncondition \"every queue has fetched all I/O commands\", which can regress\n(F_BATCH's UNPREP, daemon death) and whose re-arm can be skipped. Drop\nit and wait on the real condition instead: the new helper\nublk_wait_dev_ready_and_lock() waits on ublk_dev_ready() via\nwait_var_event_interruptible(), woken from ublk_mark_io_ready(), then\nre-checks it under ub-\u003emutex, waiting again on regression, and returns\nwith the mutex held and readiness guaranteed.\n\nReadiness becomes true in the same ub-\u003emutex critical section that\nclears the last queue's -\u003ecanceling, so END_USER_RECOVERY marks the\ndevice LIVE and kicks the requeue list strictly after -\u003ecanceling\nclears. The wait stays interruptible, so a server whose daemon died can\nstill be signalled out. For ublk_ctrl_start_dev() this replaces the\nfail-fast -EINVAL on an F_BATCH ready-\u003eUNPREP regression with waiting\nuntil the device is ready again."
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