CVE-2025-68178EPSS p9.3%
CVE-2025-68178CVE-2025-68178
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
Following deadlock can be triggered easily by lockdep:
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.17.0-rc3-00124-ga12c2658ced0 #1665 Not tainted
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check/1334 is trying to acquire lock:
ff1100011d9d0678 (&q->sysfs_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: blk_unregister_queue+0x53/0x180
but task is already holding lock:
ff1100011d9d00e0 (&q->q_usage_counter(queue)#3){++++}-{0:0}, at: del_gendisk+0xba/0x110
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
-> #2 (&q->q_usage_counter(queue)#3){++++}-{0:0}:
blk_queue_enter+0x40b/0x470
blkg_conf_prep+0x7b/0x3c0
tg_set_limit+0x10a/0x3e0
cgroup_file_write+0xc6/0x420
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x189/0x280
vfs_write+0x256/0x490
ksys_write+0x83/0x190
__x64_sys_write+0x21
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.20% probability of exploitation · percentile 9.3% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-14 |