CVE-2025-39999 – blk-mq: fix blk_mq_tags double free while nr_requests grown

CVE ID : CVE-2025-39999

Published : Oct. 15, 2025, 8:15 a.m. | 24 minutes ago

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

blk-mq: fix blk_mq_tags double free while nr_requests grown

In the case user trigger tags grow by queue sysfs attribute nr_requests,
hctx->sched_tags will be freed directly and replaced with a new
allocated tags, see blk_mq_tag_update_depth().

The problem is that hctx->sched_tags is from elevator->et->tags, while
et->tags is still the freed tags, hence later elevator exit will try to
free the tags again, causing kernel panic.

Fix this problem by replacing et->tags with new allocated tags as well.

Noted there are still some long term problems that will require some
refactor to be fixed thoroughly[1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250815080216.410665-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com/

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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