Deadlock The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNEL-17456500
  • published25 Jun 2026
  • disclosed12 Nov 2025

Introduced: 12 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-40146  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-833  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel package and not the kernel package as distributed by RHEL.

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

blk-mq: fix potential deadlock while nr_requests grown

Allocate and free sched_tags while queue is freezed can deadlock[1], this is a long term problem, hence allocate memory before freezing queue and free memory after queue is unfreezed.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0659ea8d-a463-47c8-9180-43c719e106eb@linux.ibm.com/