CVE-2026-45953 PUBLISHED

md/raid5: fix IO hang with degraded array with llbitmap

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

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

md/raid5: fix IO hang with degraded array with llbitmap

When llbitmap bit state is still unwritten, any new write should force rcw, as bitmap_ops->blocks_synced() is checked in handle_stripe_dirtying(). However, later the same check is missing in need_this_block(), causing stripe to deadloop during handling because handle_stripe() will decide to go to handle_stripe_fill(), meanwhile need_this_block() always return 0 and nothing is handled.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5ab829f1971dc99f2aac10846c378e67fc875abc to 870b9f15867b0e70f3459ef3974b043e8b229690 (excl.)
  • affected from 5ab829f1971dc99f2aac10846c378e67fc875abc to 28ef299e7a5b81817f8ca8297c2ddff28f5da5e8 (excl.)
  • affected from 5ab829f1971dc99f2aac10846c378e67fc875abc to cd1635d844d26471c56c0a432abdee12fc9ad735 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.18 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.14 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.4 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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