CVE-2025-38337
Published: Jul 10, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jbd2: fix data-race and null-ptr-deref in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() Since handle->h_transaction may be a NULL pointer, so we should change it to call is_handle_aborted(handle) first before dereferencing it. And the following data-race was reported in my fuzzer: ================================================================== BUG: KCSAN: data-race in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata / jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata write to 0xffff888011024104 of 4 bytes by task 10881 on cpu 1: jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x2a5/0x770 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1556 __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0xe7/0x4b0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:358 ext4_do_update_inode fs/ext4/inode.c:5220 [inline] ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x32c/0xd50 fs/ext4/inode.c:5869 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0xe1/0x450 fs/ext4/inode.c:6074 ext4_dirty_inode+0x98/0xc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6103 .... read to 0xffff888011024104 of 4 bytes by task 10880 on cpu 0: jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0xf2/0x770 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1512 __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0xe7/0x4b0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:358 ext4_do_update_inode fs/ext4/inode.c:5220 [inline] ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x32c/0xd50 fs/ext4/inode.c:5869 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0xe1/0x450 fs/ext4/inode.c:6074 ext4_dirty_inode+0x98/0xc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6103 .... value changed: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000001 ================================================================== This issue is caused by missing data-race annotation for jh->b_modified. Therefore, the missing annotation needs to be added.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 - < 5c1a34ff5b0bfdfd2f9343aa9b08d25df618bac5affected 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 - < ec669e5bf409f16e464bfad75f0ba039a45de29aaffected 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 - < 43d5e3bb5f1dcd91e30238ea0b59a5f77063f84eaffected 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 - < 23361b479f2700c00960d3ae9cdc8ededa762d47affected 6e06ae88edae77379bef7c0cb7d3c2dd88676867 - < 2e7c64d7a92c031d016f11c8e8cb05131ab7b75a+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.3unaffected 0 - < 4.3unaffected 5.4.295 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.239 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.186 - <= 5.15.*+5 more versions |
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