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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm: remove fake timeout to avoid leak request Since commit 15f73f5b3e59 ("blk-mq: move failure injection out of blk_mq_complete_request"), drivers are responsible for calling blk_should_fake_timeout() at appropriate code paths and opportunities. However, the dm driver does not implement its own timeout handler and relies on the timeout handling of its slave devices. If an io-timeout-fail error is injected to a dm device, the request will be leaked and never completed, causing tasks to hang indefinitely. Reproduce: 1. prepare dm which has iscsi slave device 2. inject io-timeout-fail to dm echo 1 >/sys/class/block/dm-0/io-timeout-fail echo 100 >/sys/kernel/debug/fail_io_timeout/probability echo 10 >/sys/kernel/debug/fail_io_timeout/times 3. read/write dm 4. iscsiadm -m node -u Result: hang task like below [ 862.243768] INFO: task kworker/u514:2:151 blocked for more than 122 seconds. [ 862.244133] Tainted: G E 6.19.0-rc1+ #51 [ 862.244337] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 862.244718] task:kworker/u514:2 state:D stack:0 pid:151 tgid:151 ppid:2 task_flags:0x4288060 flags:0x00080000 [ 862.245024] Workqueue: iscsi_ctrl_3:1 __iscsi_unbind_session [scsi_transport_iscsi] [ 862.245264] Call Trace: [ 862.245587] <TASK> [ 862.245814] __schedule+0x810/0x15c0 [ 862.246557] schedule+0x69/0x180 [ 862.246760] blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait+0xde/0x120 [ 862.247688] elevator_change+0x16d/0x460 [ 862.247893] elevator_set_none+0x87/0xf0 [ 862.248798] blk_unregister_queue+0x12e/0x2a0 [ 862.248995] __del_gendisk+0x231/0x7e0 [ 862.250143] del_gendisk+0x12f/0x1d0 [ 862.250339] sd_remove+0x85/0x130 [sd_mod] [ 862.250650] device_release_driver_internal+0x36d/0x530 [ 862.250849] bus_remove_device+0x1dd/0x3f0 [ 862.251042] device_del+0x38a/0x930 [ 862.252095] __scsi_remove_device+0x293/0x360 [ 862.252291] scsi_remove_target+0x486/0x760 [ 862.252654] __iscsi_unbind_session+0x18a/0x3e0 [scsi_transport_iscsi] [ 862.252886] process_one_work+0x633/0xe50 [ 862.253101] worker_thread+0x6df/0xf10 [ 862.253647] kthread+0x36d/0x720 [ 862.254533] ret_from_fork+0x2a6/0x470 [ 862.255852] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 862.256037] </TASK> Remove the blk_should_fake_timeout() check from dm, as dm has no native timeout handling and should not attempt to fake timeouts.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-01 | Published 2026-05-08 | Updated 2026-05-08 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before ece6720de9403260088209b0b92d45e0b49ff856
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 8200fca818c1e2f65bc6cb16d934ff6049302197
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before b307b6307f6459841312432bd4bc9519cbac97f5
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 4f9e7ca933a9fbf9912a384b061a00c77332cbf0
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before cf2d06c9fd4b6521ea5b7f73c99c64c2c6f5e224
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 6cdb21e0c9fdee484feba14fc9e72e9d07daf9f3
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before c8a23d4c995ef4227bd4de64cd3910637ee6162e
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before f3a9c95a15d2f4466acad5c68faeff79ca5e9f47
affected

Default status
affected

5.10.252 (semver)
unaffected

5.15.202 (semver)
unaffected

6.1.165 (semver)
unaffected

6.6.128 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.75 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.16 (semver)
unaffected

6.19.6 (semver)
unaffected

7.0 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/ece6720de9403260088209b0b92d45e0b49ff856

git.kernel.org/...c/8200fca818c1e2f65bc6cb16d934ff6049302197

git.kernel.org/...c/b307b6307f6459841312432bd4bc9519cbac97f5

git.kernel.org/...c/4f9e7ca933a9fbf9912a384b061a00c77332cbf0

git.kernel.org/...c/cf2d06c9fd4b6521ea5b7f73c99c64c2c6f5e224

git.kernel.org/...c/6cdb21e0c9fdee484feba14fc9e72e9d07daf9f3

git.kernel.org/...c/c8a23d4c995ef4227bd4de64cd3910637ee6162e

git.kernel.org/...c/f3a9c95a15d2f4466acad5c68faeff79ca5e9f47

cve.org (CVE-2026-43314)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-43314)

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