Bug 2414504 (CVE-2025-40125)

Summary:	CVE-2025-40125 kernel: blk-mq: check kobject state_in_sysfs before deleting in blk_mq_unregister_hctx
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-11-12 11:04:11 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

blk-mq: check kobject state_in_sysfs before deleting in blk_mq_unregister_hctx

In __blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() the return value of
blk_mq_sysfs_register_hctxs() is not checked. If sysfs creation for hctx
fails, later changing the number of hw_queues or removing disk will
trigger the following warning:

  kernfs: can not remove 'nr_tags', no directory
  WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 637 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:1707 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x13f/0x160
  Call Trace:
   remove_files.isra.1+0x38/0xb0
   sysfs_remove_group+0x4d/0x100
   sysfs_remove_groups+0x31/0x60
   __kobject_del+0x23/0xf0
   kobject_del+0x17/0x40
   blk_mq_unregister_hctx+0x5d/0x80
   blk_mq_sysfs_unregister_hctxs+0x94/0xd0
   blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x124/0x760
   nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x71/0xf0 [null_blk]
   nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0x92/0x120 [null_blk]

kobjct_del() was called unconditionally even if sysfs creation failed.
Fix it by checkig the kobject creation statusbefore deleting it.

Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-11-13 14:02:10 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025111253-CVE-2025-40125-cb33@gregkh/T