Bug 2424896 (CVE-2025-68373)

Summary:	CVE-2025-68373 kernel: md: avoid repeated calls to del_gendisk
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's MD RAID subsystem. A race condition between the rdev remove path and md stop path can cause del_gendisk() to be called twice on the same disk. This leads to a use-after-free when the second call attempts to unregister an already-freed backing device info structure, causing a kernel crash.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 11:04:32 UTC

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

md: avoid repeated calls to del_gendisk

There is a uaf problem which is found by case 23rdev-lifetime:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000122
RIP: 0010:bdi_unregister+0x4b/0x170
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __del_gendisk+0x356/0x3e0
 mddev_unlock+0x351/0x360
 rdev_attr_store+0x217/0x280
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x14a/0x210
 vfs_write+0x29e/0x550
 ksys_write+0x74/0xf0
 do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x380
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff5250a177e

The sequence is:
1. rdev remove path gets reconfig_mutex
2. rdev remove path release reconfig_mutex in mddev_unlock
3. md stop calls do_md_stop and sets MD_DELETED
4. rdev remove path calls del_gendisk because MD_DELETED is set
5. md stop path release reconfig_mutex and calls del_gendisk again

So there is a race condition we should resolve. This patch adds a
flag MD_DO_DELETE to avoid the race condition.

Comment 1 Vipul Nair 2025-12-24 12:01:54 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025122401-CVE-2025-68373-c983@gregkh/T