netfs: Fix unbuffered write error handling (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-39723
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.23 % · percentile 14 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix unbuffered write error handling If all the subrequests in an unbuffered write stream fail, the subrequest collector doesn't update the stream->transferred value and it retains its initial LONG_MAX value. Unfortunately, if all active streams fail, then we take the smallest value of { LONG_MAX, LONG_MAX, ... } as the value to set in wreq->transferred - which is then returned from ->write_iter(). LONG_MAX was chosen as the initial value so that all the streams can be quickly assessed by taking the smallest value of all stream->transferred - but this only works if we've set any of them. Fix this by adding a flag to indicate whether the value in stream->transferred is valid and checking that when we integrate the values. stream->transferred can then be initialised to zero. This was found by running the generic/750 xfstest against cifs with cache=none. It splices data to the target file. Once (if) it has used up all the available scratch space, the writes start failing with ENOSPC. This causes ->write_iter() to fail. However, it was returning wreq->transferred, i.e. LONG_MAX, rather than an error (because it thought the amount transferred was non-zero) and iter_file_splice_write() would then try to clean up that amount of pipe bufferage - leading to an oops when it overran. The kernel log showed: CIFS: VFS: Send error in write = -28 followed by: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 with: RIP: 0010:iter_file_splice_write+0x3a4/0x520 do_splice+0x197/0x4e0 or: RIP: 0010:pipe_buf_release (include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h:282) iter_file_splice_write (fs/splice.c:755) Also put a warning check into splice to announce if ->write_iter() returned that it had written more than it was asked to.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 < f08c80af3c9a9849cd178b4843b7c01d103506a1 ; affected 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 < 387164a2b97e1f5404c6d0049a7409bac7d2bc5b ; affected 288ace2f57c9d06dd2e42bd80d03747d879a4068 < a3de58b12ce074ec05b8741fa28d62ccb1070468
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.10 ; unaffected 0 < 6.10 ; unaffected 6.12.44 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.16.4 ≤ 6.16.* ; unaffected 6.17 ≤ *

Sources

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