🛡️ AZL-77874 — kernel (CVE-2025-71225)

CVE-2025-71225 affecting package kernel 6.6.126.1-1

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

md: suspend array while updating raid_disks via sysfs

In raid1_reshape(), freeze_array() is called before modifying the r1bio

memory pool (conf->r1bio_pool) and conf->raid_disks, and

unfreeze_array() is called after the update is completed.

However, freeze_array() only waits until nr_sync_pending and

(nr_pending - nr_queued) of all buckets reaches zero. When an I/O error

occurs, nr_queued is increased and the corresponding r1bio is queued to

either retry_list or bio_end_io_list. As a result, freeze_array() may

unblock before these r1bios are released.

This can lead to a situation where conf->raid_disks and the mempool have

already been updated while queued r1bios, allocated with the old

raid_disks value, are later released. Consequently, free_r1bio() may

access memory out of bounds in put_all_bios() and release r1bios of the

wrong size to the new mempool, potentially causing issues with the

mempool as well.

Since only normal I/O might increase nr_queued while an I/O error occurs,

suspending the array avoids this issue.

Note: Updating raid_disks via ioctl SET_ARRAY_INFO already suspends

the array. Therefore, we suspend the array when updating raid_disks

via sysfs to avoid this issue too.