# CVE-2024-35974: block: fix q-\>blkg\_list corruption during disk rebind

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.1.17, 6.2.4
- Published: 2024-05-20 · Updated: 2026-05-23

## Affected

- Linux: from 6.1.16, fixed in 6.1.17; from 6.2.3, fixed in 6.2.4
- Linux: 5.18

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: fix q->blkg_list corruption during disk rebind Multiple gendisk instances can allocated/added for single request queue in case of disk rebind. blkg may still stay in q->blkg_list when calling blkcg_init_disk() for rebind, then q->blkg_list becomes corrupted. Fix the list corruption issue by: - add blkg_init_queue() to initialize q->blkg_list & q->blkcg_mutex only - move calling blkg_init_queue() into blk_alloc_queue() The list corruption should be started since commit f1c006f1c685 ("blk-cgroup: synchronize pd_free_fn() from blkg_free_workfn() and blkcg_deactivate_policy()") which delays removing blkg from q->blkg_list into blkg_free_workfn().

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5dae1cd0d8368b4338430ff93403df67f0b8bcc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/083b58373463a6e5ee60ecb135269348f68ad7df
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/740ffad95ca8033bd6e080ed337655b13b4d38ac
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/858c489d81d659af17a4d11cfaad2afb42e47a76
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b8ace080319a866f5dfe9da8e665ae51d971c54

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