deadlock

The Linux kernel received a low‑to‑medium severity vulnerability report identified as CVE-2024-0639, a subtle locking bug in the SCTP subsystem that can trigger a kernel deadlock on the per‑net workqueue lock net->sctp.addr_wq_lock, allowing a local attacker to cause a denial‑of‑service (DoS) by...

A subtle but important kernel fix landed in mid‑December: a guarded change to the Radeon DRM driver removes an attempt to progress the wait queue from the dma‑fence “is_signaled” path, eliminating a class of self‑deadlocks that could hang the graphics stack. The patch — tracked as CVE‑2025‑68223...

A recent upstream Linux kernel patch closes CVE-2025-40146, a subtle but practical concurrency bug in the block multi-queue (blk-mq) layer that could deadlock I/O when the sysfs attribute nr_requests is grown; administrators and cloud operators should treat this as an availability‑first risk and...

Notepad++ froze for no reason when saving onto an external HDD. This happened for the first time ever. The file was not saved. How do I get out of this infinite state without needing to restart Notepad++? Why did this happen in first place? The same happened more than a year earlier with MsPaint.

I refer to the attachment below here. The image displayed is so my Windows Update. It makes no update. Thus has it locked up, and I find no way to make some updates in Windows Update. Nor do I know what I can do to rectify the deadlock. Someone who can afford?

I discovered a serious problem with "GetSaveFileName" on Windows Vista: In certain situation the Save-Dialog does not come up and the Application freezes (forever). This means that the user can not save his data. This is not acceptable!! Below there is a link where you can download a small demo...