CVE-2025-37999
Published: May 29, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/erofs/fileio: call erofs_onlinefolio_split() after bio_add_folio() If bio_add_folio() fails (because it is full), erofs_fileio_scan_folio() needs to submit the I/O request via erofs_fileio_rq_submit() and allocate a new I/O request with an empty `struct bio`. Then it retries the bio_add_folio() call. However, at this point, erofs_onlinefolio_split() has already been called which increments `folio->private`; the retry will call erofs_onlinefolio_split() again, but there will never be a matching erofs_onlinefolio_end() call. This leaves the folio locked forever and all waiters will be stuck in folio_wait_bit_common(). This bug has been added by commit ce63cb62d794 ("erofs: support unencoded inodes for fileio"), but was practically unreachable because there was room for 256 folios in the `struct bio` - until commit 9f74ae8c9ac9 ("erofs: shorten bvecs[] for file-backed mounts") which reduced the array capacity to 16 folios. It was now trivial to trigger the bug by manually invoking readahead from userspace, e.g.: posix_fadvise(fd, 0, st.st_size, POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED); This should be fixed by invoking erofs_onlinefolio_split() only after bio_add_folio() has succeeded. This is safe: asynchronous completions invoking erofs_onlinefolio_end() will not unlock the folio because erofs_fileio_scan_folio() is still holding a reference to be released by erofs_onlinefolio_end() at the end.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected ce63cb62d794c98c7631c2296fa845f2a8d0a4a1 - < 61e0fc3312309867e5a3495329dad0286d2a5703affected ce63cb62d794c98c7631c2296fa845f2a8d0a4a1 - < c26076197df348c84cc23e5962d61902e072a0f5affected ce63cb62d794c98c7631c2296fa845f2a8d0a4a1 - < bbfe756dc3062c1e934f06e5ba39c239aa953b92 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.12unaffected 0 - < 6.12unaffected 6.12.29 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.14.7 - <= 6.14.*unaffected 6.15 - <= * |
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