CVE-2026-53123
md: wake raid456 reshape waiters before suspend
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 24, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2026
- Reserved
- Jun 9, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md: wake raid456 reshape waiters before suspend
During raid456 reshape, direct IO across the reshape position can sleep in raid5_make_request() waiting for reshape progress while still holding an active_io reference. If userspace then freezes reshape and writes md/suspend_lo or md/suspend_hi, mddev_suspend() kills active_io and waits for all in-flight IO to drain.
This can deadlock: the IO needs reshape progress to continue, but the reshape thread is already frozen, so the active_io reference is never dropped and suspend never completes.
raid5_prepare_suspend() already wakes wait_for_reshape for dm-raid. Do the same for normal md suspend when reshape is already interrupted, so waiting raid456 IO can abort, drop its reference, and let suspend finish.
The mdadm test tests/25raid456-reshape-deadlock reproduces the hang.
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Weaknesses
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Affected Products
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