ext4: only dirty folios when data journaling regular files (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-38220
MEDIUM 5.5

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Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · centile 6 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
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Linux
Statut NVD
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: only dirty folios when data journaling regular files fstest generic/388 occasionally reproduces a crash that looks as follows: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 ... Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_block_zero_page_range+0x30c/0x380 [ext4] ext4_truncate+0x436/0x440 [ext4] ext4_process_orphan+0x5d/0x110 [ext4] ext4_orphan_cleanup+0x124/0x4f0 [ext4] ext4_fill_super+0x262d/0x3110 [ext4] get_tree_bdev_flags+0x132/0x1d0 vfs_get_tree+0x26/0xd0 vfs_cmd_create+0x59/0xe0 __do_sys_fsconfig+0x4ed/0x6b0 do_syscall_64+0x82/0x170 ... This occurs when processing a symlink inode from the orphan list. The partial block zeroing code in the truncate path calls ext4_dirty_journalled_data() -> folio_mark_dirty(). The latter calls mapping->a_ops->dirty_folio(), but symlink inodes are not assigned an a_ops vector in ext4, hence the crash. To avoid this problem, update the ext4_dirty_journalled_data() helper to only mark the folio dirty on regular files (for which a_ops is assigned). This also matches the journaling logic in the ext4_symlink() creation path, where ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() is called directly.

Faiblesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — Déréférencement de pointeur nul

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Configurations affectées (CPE NVD)

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected d84c9ebdac1e39bc7b036c0c829ee8c1956edabc < cf6a4c4ac7b6e3214f25df594c9689a62f1bb456 ; affected d84c9ebdac1e39bc7b036c0c829ee8c1956edabc < be5f3061a6f904e3674257879e71881ceee5b673 ; affected d84c9ebdac1e39bc7b036c0c829ee8c1956edabc < d7af6eee8cd60f55aa8c5fe2b91f11ec0c9a0f27 ; affected d84c9ebdac1e39bc7b036c0c829ee8c1956edabc < e26268ff1dcae5662c1b96c35f18cfa6ab73d9de
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.4 ; unaffected 0 < 6.4 ; unaffected 6.6.95 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.35 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.15.4 ≤ 6.15.* ; unaffected 6.16 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD