{"id":"CVE-2026-46050","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-46050","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:26:25.448Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid10: fix deadlock with check operation and nowait requests When an array check is running it will raise the barrier at which point normal requests will become blocked and…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmd/raid10: fix deadlock with check operation and nowait requests\n\nWhen an array check is running it will raise the barrier at which point\nnormal requests will become blocked and increment the nr_pending value to\nsignal there is work pending inside of wait_barrier(). NOWAIT requests\ndo not block and so will return immediately with an error, and additionally\ndo not increment nr_pending in wait_barrier(). Upstream change commit\n43806c3d5b9b (\"raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request\") added a\ncall to raid_end_bio_io() to fix a memory leak when NOWAIT requests hit\nthis condition. raid_end_bio_io() eventually calls allow_barrier() and\nit will unconditionally do an atomic_dec_and_test(&conf->nr_pending) even\nthough the corresponding increment on nr_pending didn't happen in the\nNOWAIT case.\n\nThis can be easily seen by starting a check operation while an application\nis doing nowait IO on the same array. This results in a deadlocked state\ndue to nr_pending value underflowing and so the md resync thread gets stuck\nwaiting for nr_pending to == 0.\n\nOutput of r10conf state of the array when we hit this condition:\n\ncrash> struct r10conf\n\tbarrier = 1,\n        nr_pending = {\n          counter = -41\n        },\n        nr_waiting = 15,\n        nr_queued = 0,\n\nExample of md_sync thread stuck waiting on raise_barrier() and other\nrequests stuck in wait_barrier():\n\nmd1_resync\n[<0>] raise_barrier+0xce/0x1c0\n[<0>] raid10_sync_request+0x1ca/0x1ed0\n[<0>] md_do_sync+0x779/0x1110\n[<0>] md_thread+0x90/0x160\n[<0>] kthread+0xbe/0xf0\n[<0>] ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50\n[<0>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nkworker/u1040:2+flush-253:4\n[<0>] wait_barrier+0x1de/0x220\n[<0>] regular_request_wait+0x30/0x180\n[<0>] raid10_make_request+0x261/0x1000\n[<0>] md_handle_request+0x13b/0x230\n[<0>] __submit_bio+0x107/0x1f0\n[<0>] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x16f/0x390\n[<0>] ext4_io_submit+0x24/0x40\n[<0>] ext4_do_writepages+0x254/0xc80\n[<0>] ext4_writepages+0x84/0x120\n[<0>] do_writepages+0x7a/0x260\n[<0>] __writeback_single_inode+0x3d/0x300\n[<0>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x1dd/0x470\n[<0>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x4c/0xe0\n[<0>] wb_writeback+0x18b/0x2d0\n[<0>] wb_workfn+0x2a1/0x400\n[<0>] process_one_work+0x149/0x330\n[<0>] worker_thread+0x2d2/0x410\n[<0>] kthread+0xbe/0xf0\n[<0>] ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50\n[<0>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30","published":"2026-05-27T14:17:25.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T02:19:41.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-667"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00095,"percentile":0.00603,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.10%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cdff2937c618f81058422bbdc4974a3e7ec9379","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2249983d971e6839b36284e6610390b2c217dfa1","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42fe37c90184cd1568838b84b488934c3671c963","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d96f3120a7fb7210d21b520c5b6f495da6ba436","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/965d6162dd88cc7cc193cf7f5bfc132d8bbf0523","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae356d5eb1331d678985799f893e436314834a87","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cac2106bb9a2180b288079b49ed626414fb5bc45","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46050","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}