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

block: Fix potential deadlock while freezing queue and acquiring sysfs_lock

For storing a value to a queue attribute, the queue_attr_store function
first freezes the queue (->q_usage_counter(io)) and then acquire
->sysfs_lock. This seems not correct as the usual ordering should be to
acquire ->sysfs_lock before freezing the queue. This incorrect ordering
causes the following lockdep splat which we are able to reproduce always
simply by accessing /sys/kernel/debug file using ls command:

[   57.597146] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[   57.597154] 6.12.0-10553-gb86545e02e8c #20 Tainted: G        W
[   57.597162] ------------------------------------------------------
[   57.597168] ls/4605 is trying to acquire lock:
[   57.597176] c00000003eb56710 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{4:4}, at: __might_fault+0x58/0xc0
[   57.597200]
               but task is already holding lock:
[   57.597207] c0000018e27c6810 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){++++}-{4:4}, at: iterate_dir+0x94/0x1d4
[   57.597226]
               which lock already depends on the new lock.

[   57.597233]
               the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[   57.597241]
               -> #5 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){++++}-{4:4}:
[   57.597255]        down_write+0x6c/0x18c
[   57.597264]        start_creating+0xb4/0x24c
[   57.597274]        debugfs_create_dir+0x2c/0x1e8
[   57.597283]        blk_register_queue+0xec/0x294
[   57.597292]        add_disk_fwnode+0x2e4/0x548
[   57.597302]        brd_alloc+0x2c8/0x338
[   57.597309]        brd_init+0x100/0x178
[   57.597317]        do_one_initcall+0x88/0x3e4
[   57.597326]        kernel_init_freeable+0x3cc/0x6e0
[   57.597334]        kernel_init+0x34/0x1cc
[   57.597342]        ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c
[   57.597350]
               -> #4 (&q->debugfs_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}:
[   57.597362]        __mutex_lock+0xfc/0x12a0
[   57.597370]        blk_register_queue+0xd4/0x294
[   57.597379]        add_disk_fwnode+0x2e4/0x548
[   57.597388]        brd_alloc+0x2c8/0x338
[   57.597395]        brd_init+0x100/0x178
[   57.597402]        do_one_initcall+0x88/0x3e4
[   57.597410]        kernel_init_freeable+0x3cc/0x6e0
[   57.597418]        kernel_init+0x34/0x1cc
[   57.597426]        ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c
[   57.597434]
               -> #3 (&q->sysfs_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}:
[   57.597446]        __mutex_lock+0xfc/0x12a0
[   57.597454]        queue_attr_store+0x9c/0x110
[   57.597462]        sysfs_kf_write+0x70/0xb0
[   57.597471]        kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x1b0/0x2ac
[   57.597480]        vfs_write+0x3dc/0x6e8
[   57.597488]        ksys_write+0x84/0x140
[   57.597495]        system_call_exception+0x130/0x360
[   57.597504]        system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4
[   57.597516]
               -> #2 (&q->q_usage_counter(io)#21){++++}-{0:0}:
[   57.597530]        __submit_bio+0x5ec/0x828
[   57.597538]        submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x1e4/0x4f0
[   57.597547]        iomap_readahead+0x2a0/0x448
[   57.597556]        xfs_vm_readahead+0x28/0x3c
[   57.597564]        read_pages+0x88/0x41c
[   57.597571]        page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x1ac/0x2d8
[   57.597580]        filemap_get_pages+0x188/0x984
[   57.597588]        filemap_read+0x13c/0x4bc
[   57.597596]        xfs_file_buffered_read+0x88/0x17c
[   57.597605]        xfs_file_read_iter+0xac/0x158
[   57.597614]        vfs_read+0x2d4/0x3b4
[   57.597622]        ksys_read+0x84/0x144
[   57.597629]        system_call_exception+0x130/0x360
[   57.597637]        system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4
[   57.597647]
               -> #1 (mapping.invalidate_lock#2){++++}-{4:4}:
[   57.597661]        down_read+0x6c/0x220
[   57.597669]        filemap_fault+0x870/0x100c
[   57.597677]        xfs_filemap_fault+0xc4/0x18c
[   57.597684]        __do_fault+0x64/0x164
[   57.597693]        __handle_mm_fault+0x1274/0x1dac
[   57.597702]        handle_mm_fault+0x248/0x48
---truncated---