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CVE-2025-21817

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2025-02-27 Modified: 2026-07-18

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: mark GFP_NOIO around sysfs ->store() sysfs ->store is called with queue freezed, meantime we have several ->store() callbacks(update_nr_requests, wbt, scheduler) to allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL which may run into direct reclaim code path, then potential deadlock can be caused. Fix the issue by marking NOIO around sysfs ->store()

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-667

References