nvme-multipath: fix lockdep WARN due to partition scan work
CVE-2025-68218

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Key Information:

Vendor

Linux

Status
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 December 2025

What is CVE-2025-68218?

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

nvme-multipath: fix lockdep WARN due to partition scan work

Blktests test cases nvme/014, 057 and 058 fail occasionally due to a lockdep WARN. As reported in the Closes tag URL, the WARN indicates that a deadlock can happen due to the dependency among disk->open_mutex, kblockd workqueue completion and partition_scan_work completion.

To avoid the lockdep WARN and the potential deadlock, cut the dependency by running the partition_scan_work not by kblockd workqueue but by nvme_wq.

Affected Version(s)

Linux 60de2e03f984cfbcdc12fa552f95087c35a05a98 < 89456dab7ba5ab63d60945440926673a3205e829

Linux 4a57f42e5ed42cb8f1beb262c4f6d3e698939e4e

Linux 1f021341eef41e77a633186e9be5223de2ce5d48

References

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2025-68218 : Lock Dependency Issue in Linux Kernel Affecting NVMe Multipath Functionality