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Change History

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

md/md-llbitmap: fix percpu_ref not resurrected on suspend timeout

When llbitmap_suspend_timeout() times out waiting for percpu_ref to
become zero, it returns -ETIMEDOUT without resurrecting the percpu_ref.
The caller (md_llbitmap_daemon_fn) then continues to the next page
without calling llbitmap_resume(), leaving the percpu_ref in a killed
state permanently.

Fix this by resurrecting the percpu_ref before returning the error,
ensuring the page control structure remains usable for subsequent
operations.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/095417d6b669c2dec39a5842ccb94df915f97f54

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2446d099350185caeed19ab2c0270451a97296fb

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d119bd2e1643cc023210ff3c6f0657e4f914e71d