CVE-2026-46050md/raid10: fix deadlock with check operation and nowait requests

Description

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 increment the nr_pending value to signal there is work pending inside of wait_barrier(). NOWAIT requests do not block and so will return immediately with an error, and additionally do not increment nr_pending in wait_barrier(). Upstream change commit 43806c3d5b9b ("raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request") added a call to raid_end_bio_io() to fix a memory leak when NOWAIT requests hit this condition. raid_end_bio_io() eventually calls allow_barrier() and it will unconditionally do an atomic_dec_and_test(&conf->nr_pending) even though the corresponding increment on nr_pending didn't happen in the NOWAIT case. This can be easily seen by starting a check operation while an application is doing nowait IO on the same array. This results in a deadlocked state due to nr_pending value underflowing and so the md resync thread gets stuck waiting for nr_pending to == 0. Output of r10conf state of the array when we hit this condition: crash> struct r10conf barrier = 1, nr_pending = { counter = -41 }, nr_waiting = 15, nr_queued = 0, Example of md_sync thread stuck waiting on raise_barrier() and other requests stuck in wait_barrier(): md1_resync [<0>] raise_barrier+0xce/0x1c0 [<0>] raid10_sync_request+0x1ca/0x1ed0 [<0>] md_do_sync+0x779/0x1110 [<0>] md_thread+0x90/0x160 [<0>] kthread+0xbe/0xf0 [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50 [<0>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 kworker/u1040:2+flush-253:4 [<0>] wait_barrier+0x1de/0x220 [<0>] regular_request_wait+0x30/0x180 [<0>] raid10_make_request+0x261/0x1000 [<0>] md_handle_request+0x13b/0x230 [<0>] __submit_bio+0x107/0x1f0 [<0>] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x16f/0x390 [<0>] ext4_io_submit+0x24/0x40 [<0>] ext4_do_writepages+0x254/0xc80 [<0>] ext4_writepages+0x84/0x120 [<0>] do_writepages+0x7a/0x260 [<0>] __writeback_single_inode+0x3d/0x300 [<0>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x1dd/0x470 [<0>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x4c/0xe0 [<0>] wb_writeback+0x18b/0x2d0 [<0>] wb_workfn+0x2a1/0x400 [<0>] process_one_work+0x149/0x330 [<0>] worker_thread+0x2d2/0x410 [<0>] kthread+0xbe/0xf0 [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50 [<0>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.10% · top 99% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Affected products

• Linux · Linux

  • affected 10c6021a609deb95f23f0cc2f89aa9d4bffb14c7 – < 2249983d971e6839b36284e6610390b2c217dfa1
  • affected 9af149ca9d0dab6e59e813519d309eff62499864 – < ae356d5eb1331d678985799f893e436314834a87
  • affected 8fc3d7b23d139e3cbc944c15d99b3cdbed797d2d – < 965d6162dd88cc7cc193cf7f5bfc132d8bbf0523
  • affected 2941155d9a5ae098b480d551f3a5f8605d4f9af5 – < 42fe37c90184cd1568838b84b488934c3671c963
  • affected 43806c3d5b9bb7d74ba4e33a6a8a41ac988bde24 – < cac2106bb9a2180b288079b49ed626414fb5bc45
  • affected 43806c3d5b9bb7d74ba4e33a6a8a41ac988bde24 – < 1cdff2937c618f81058422bbdc4974a3e7ec9379
  • affected 43806c3d5b9bb7d74ba4e33a6a8a41ac988bde24 – < 7d96f3120a7fb7210d21b520c5b6f495da6ba436
  • affected ed7bcd9f617e4107ac0813c516e72e6b8f6029bd
  • affected 5.15.189 – < 5.15.209
  • affected 6.1.146 – < 6.1.175
  • affected 6.6.99 – < 6.6.140
  • affected 6.12.39 – < 6.12.86
  • affected 6.15.7 – < 6.16

• Linux · Linux

  • affected 6.16
  • unaffected < 6.16
  • unaffected 5.15.209 – ≤ 5.15.*
  • unaffected 6.1.175 – ≤ 6.1.*
  • unaffected 6.6.140 – ≤ 6.6.*
  • unaffected 6.12.86 – ≤ 6.12.*
  • unaffected 6.18.27 – ≤ 6.18.*
  • unaffected 7.0.4 – ≤ 7.0.*
  • unaffected 7.1 – ≤ *

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• EUVD EUVD-2026-32432 (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Nov 2026, 16:13 UTC.