GHSA-5vch-5hxh-2rq8HighCVSS 7.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: fix tags leak when...

Published
December 30, 2025
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

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📋 Description

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

blk-mq: fix tags leak when shrink nr_hw_queues

Although we don't need to realloc set->tags[] when shrink nr_hw_queues, we need to free them. Or these tags will be leaked.

How to reproduce:

  1. mount -t configfs configfs /mnt
  2. modprobe null_blk nr_devices=0 submit_queues=8
  3. mkdir /mnt/nullb/nullb0
  4. echo 1 > /mnt/nullb/nullb0/power
  5. echo 4 > /mnt/nullb/nullb0/submit_queues
  6. rmdir /mnt/nullb/nullb0

In step 4, will alloc 9 tags (8 submit queues and 1 poll queue), then in step 5, new_nr_hw_queues = 5 (4 submit queues and 1 poll queue). At last in step 6, only these 5 tags are freed, the other 4 tags leaked.

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