CVE-2025-38709
Published: Sep 4, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: loop: Avoid updating block size under exclusive owner Syzbot came up with a reproducer where a loop device block size is changed underneath a mounted filesystem. This causes a mismatch between the block device block size and the block size stored in the superblock causing confusion in various places such as fs/buffer.c. The particular issue triggered by syzbot was a warning in __getblk_slow() due to requested buffer size not matching block device block size. Fix the problem by getting exclusive hold of the loop device to change its block size. This fails if somebody (such as filesystem) has already an exclusive ownership of the block device and thus prevents modifying the loop device under some exclusive owner which doesn't expect it.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 89e4fdecb51cf5535867026274bc97de9480ade5 - < 457d2c5e112fd08dc1039b1ae39a83ec1782360daffected 89e4fdecb51cf5535867026274bc97de9480ade5 - < 139a000d20f2f38ce34296feddd641d730fe1c08affected 89e4fdecb51cf5535867026274bc97de9480ade5 - < b928438cc87c0bf7ae078e4b7b6e14261e84c5c5affected 89e4fdecb51cf5535867026274bc97de9480ade5 - < 5d67b30aefeb7a949040bbb1b4e3b84c5d29a624affected 89e4fdecb51cf5535867026274bc97de9480ade5 - < 7e49538288e523427beedd26993d446afef1a6fb |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.14unaffected 0 - < 4.14unaffected 6.6.109 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.12.43 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.15.11 - <= 6.15.*+2 more versions |
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