In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: do not force clear folio if buffer is referenced
Patch series "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared".
This series fixes the buffer head state inconsistency issues reported by
syzbot that occurs when the filesystem is corrupted and falls back to
read-only, and the associated buffer head use-after-free issue.
This patch (of 2):
Syzbot has reported that after nilfs2 detects filesystem corruption and
falls back to read-only, inconsistencies in the buffer state may occur.
One of the inconsistencies is that when nilfs2 calls mark_buffer_dirty()
to set a data or metadata buffer as dirty, but it detects that the buffer
is not in the uptodate state:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6049 at fs/buffer.c:1177 mark_buffer_dirty+0x2e5/0x520
fs/buffer.c:1177
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nilfs_palloc_commit_alloc_entry+0x4b/0x160 fs/nilfs2/alloc.c:598
nilfs_ifile_create_inode+0x1dd/0x3a0 fs/nilfs2/ifile.c:73
nilfs_new_inode+0x254/0x830 fs/nilfs2/inode.c:344
nilfs_mkdir+0x10d/0x340 fs/nilfs2/namei.c:218
vfs_mkdir+0x2f9/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:4257
do_mkdirat+0x264/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:4280
__do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4295 [inline]
__se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4293 [inline]
__x64_sys_mkdirat+0x87/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4293
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
The other is when nilfs_btree_propagate(), which propagates the dirty
state to the ancestor nodes of a b-tree that point to a dirty buffer,
detects that the origin buffer is not dirty, even though it should be:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5245 at fs/nilfs2/btree.c:2089
nilfs_btree_propagate+0xc79/0xdf0 fs/nilfs2/btree.c:2089
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nilfs_bmap_propagate+0x75/0x120 fs/nilfs2/bmap.c:345
nilfs_collect_file_data+0x4d/0xd0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:587
nilfs_segctor_apply_buffers+0x184/0x340 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1006
nilfs_segctor_scan_file+0x28c/0xa50 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1045
nilfs_segctor_collect_blocks fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1216 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_collect fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1540 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_do_construct+0x1c28/0x6b90 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2115
nilfs_segctor_construct+0x181/0x6b0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2479
nilfs_segctor_thread_construct fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2587 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_thread+0x69e/0xe80 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2701
kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
</TASK>
Both of these issues are caused by the callbacks that handle the
page/folio write requests, forcibly clear various states, including the
working state of the buffers they hold, at unexpected times when they
detect read-only fallback.
Fix these issues by checking if the buffer is referenced before clearing
the page/folio state, and skipping the clear if it is.
nilfs2: do not force clear folio if buffer is referenced
Patch series "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared".
This series fixes the buffer head state inconsistency issues reported by
syzbot that occurs when the filesystem is corrupted and falls back to
read-only, and the associated buffer head use-after-free issue.
This patch (of 2):
Syzbot has reported that after nilfs2 detects filesystem corruption and
falls back to read-only, inconsistencies in the buffer state may occur.
One of the inconsistencies is that when nilfs2 calls mark_buffer_dirty()
to set a data or metadata buffer as dirty, but it detects that the buffer
is not in the uptodate state:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6049 at fs/buffer.c:1177 mark_buffer_dirty+0x2e5/0x520
fs/buffer.c:1177
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nilfs_palloc_commit_alloc_entry+0x4b/0x160 fs/nilfs2/alloc.c:598
nilfs_ifile_create_inode+0x1dd/0x3a0 fs/nilfs2/ifile.c:73
nilfs_new_inode+0x254/0x830 fs/nilfs2/inode.c:344
nilfs_mkdir+0x10d/0x340 fs/nilfs2/namei.c:218
vfs_mkdir+0x2f9/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:4257
do_mkdirat+0x264/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:4280
__do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4295 [inline]
__se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4293 [inline]
__x64_sys_mkdirat+0x87/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4293
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
The other is when nilfs_btree_propagate(), which propagates the dirty
state to the ancestor nodes of a b-tree that point to a dirty buffer,
detects that the origin buffer is not dirty, even though it should be:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5245 at fs/nilfs2/btree.c:2089
nilfs_btree_propagate+0xc79/0xdf0 fs/nilfs2/btree.c:2089
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
nilfs_bmap_propagate+0x75/0x120 fs/nilfs2/bmap.c:345
nilfs_collect_file_data+0x4d/0xd0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:587
nilfs_segctor_apply_buffers+0x184/0x340 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1006
nilfs_segctor_scan_file+0x28c/0xa50 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1045
nilfs_segctor_collect_blocks fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1216 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_collect fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1540 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_do_construct+0x1c28/0x6b90 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2115
nilfs_segctor_construct+0x181/0x6b0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2479
nilfs_segctor_thread_construct fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2587 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_thread+0x69e/0xe80 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2701
kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
</TASK>
Both of these issues are caused by the callbacks that handle the
page/folio write requests, forcibly clear various states, including the
working state of the buffers they hold, at unexpected times when they
detect read-only fallback.
Fix these issues by checking if the buffer is referenced before clearing
the page/folio state, and skipping the clear if it is.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
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 Debian DLA |
DLA-4102-1 | linux-6.1 security update |
| Debian DLA |
DLA-4178-1 | linux security update |
 EUVD |
EUVD-2025-5233 | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: do not force clear folio if buffer is referenced Patch series "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared". This series fixes the buffer head state inconsistency issues reported by syzbot that occurs when the filesystem is corrupted and falls back to read-only, and the associated buffer head use-after-free issue. This patch (of 2): Syzbot has reported that after nilfs2 detects filesystem corruption and falls back to read-only, inconsistencies in the buffer state may occur. One of the inconsistencies is that when nilfs2 calls mark_buffer_dirty() to set a data or metadata buffer as dirty, but it detects that the buffer is not in the uptodate state: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6049 at fs/buffer.c:1177 mark_buffer_dirty+0x2e5/0x520 fs/buffer.c:1177 ... Call Trace: <TASK> nilfs_palloc_commit_alloc_entry+0x4b/0x160 fs/nilfs2/alloc.c:598 nilfs_ifile_create_inode+0x1dd/0x3a0 fs/nilfs2/ifile.c:73 nilfs_new_inode+0x254/0x830 fs/nilfs2/inode.c:344 nilfs_mkdir+0x10d/0x340 fs/nilfs2/namei.c:218 vfs_mkdir+0x2f9/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:4257 do_mkdirat+0x264/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:4280 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4295 [inline] __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4293 [inline] __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x87/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4293 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f The other is when nilfs_btree_propagate(), which propagates the dirty state to the ancestor nodes of a b-tree that point to a dirty buffer, detects that the origin buffer is not dirty, even though it should be: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5245 at fs/nilfs2/btree.c:2089 nilfs_btree_propagate+0xc79/0xdf0 fs/nilfs2/btree.c:2089 ... Call Trace: <TASK> nilfs_bmap_propagate+0x75/0x120 fs/nilfs2/bmap.c:345 nilfs_collect_file_data+0x4d/0xd0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:587 nilfs_segctor_apply_buffers+0x184/0x340 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1006 nilfs_segctor_scan_file+0x28c/0xa50 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1045 nilfs_segctor_collect_blocks fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1216 [inline] nilfs_segctor_collect fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1540 [inline] nilfs_segctor_do_construct+0x1c28/0x6b90 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2115 nilfs_segctor_construct+0x181/0x6b0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2479 nilfs_segctor_thread_construct fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2587 [inline] nilfs_segctor_thread+0x69e/0xe80 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2701 kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244 </TASK> Both of these issues are caused by the callbacks that handle the page/folio write requests, forcibly clear various states, including the working state of the buffers they hold, at unexpected times when they detect read-only fallback. Fix these issues by checking if the buffer is referenced before clearing the page/folio state, and skipping the clear if it is. |
 Ubuntu USN |
USN-7510-1 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7510-2 | Linux kernel (FIPS) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7510-3 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7510-4 | Linux kernel (Real-time) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7510-5 | Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7510-6 | Linux kernel (AWS FIPS) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7510-7 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7510-8 | Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7511-1 | Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7511-2 | Linux kernel (GCP FIPS) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7511-3 | Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7512-1 | Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7516-1 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7516-2 | Linux kernel (GCP FIPS) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7516-3 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7516-4 | Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7516-5 | Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7516-6 | Linux kernel (IBM) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7516-7 | Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7516-8 | Linux kernel (FIPS) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7516-9 | Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7517-1 | Linux kernel (Xilinx ZynqMP) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7517-2 | Linux kernel (IBM) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7517-3 | Linux kernel (BlueField) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7518-1 | Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7539-1 | Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7540-1 | Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7593-1 | Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7602-1 | Linux kernel (Xilinx ZynqMP) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7640-1 | Linux kernel (IoT) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7651-1 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7651-2 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7651-3 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7651-4 | Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7651-5 | Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi Real-time) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7651-6 | Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7652-1 | Linux kernel (Real-time) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7653-1 | Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities |
| Ubuntu USN |
USN-7737-1 | Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities |
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| Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: do not force clear folio if buffer is referenced Patch series "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared". This series fixes the buffer head state inconsistency issues reported by syzbot that occurs when the filesystem is corrupted and falls back to read-only, and the associated buffer head use-after-free issue. This patch (of 2): Syzbot has reported that after nilfs2 detects filesystem corruption and falls back to read-only, inconsistencies in the buffer state may occur. One of the inconsistencies is that when nilfs2 calls mark_buffer_dirty() to set a data or metadata buffer as dirty, but it detects that the buffer is not in the uptodate state: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6049 at fs/buffer.c:1177 mark_buffer_dirty+0x2e5/0x520 fs/buffer.c:1177 ... Call Trace: <TASK> nilfs_palloc_commit_alloc_entry+0x4b/0x160 fs/nilfs2/alloc.c:598 nilfs_ifile_create_inode+0x1dd/0x3a0 fs/nilfs2/ifile.c:73 nilfs_new_inode+0x254/0x830 fs/nilfs2/inode.c:344 nilfs_mkdir+0x10d/0x340 fs/nilfs2/namei.c:218 vfs_mkdir+0x2f9/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:4257 do_mkdirat+0x264/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:4280 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4295 [inline] __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4293 [inline] __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x87/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4293 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f The other is when nilfs_btree_propagate(), which propagates the dirty state to the ancestor nodes of a b-tree that point to a dirty buffer, detects that the origin buffer is not dirty, even though it should be: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5245 at fs/nilfs2/btree.c:2089 nilfs_btree_propagate+0xc79/0xdf0 fs/nilfs2/btree.c:2089 ... Call Trace: <TASK> nilfs_bmap_propagate+0x75/0x120 fs/nilfs2/bmap.c:345 nilfs_collect_file_data+0x4d/0xd0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:587 nilfs_segctor_apply_buffers+0x184/0x340 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1006 nilfs_segctor_scan_file+0x28c/0xa50 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1045 nilfs_segctor_collect_blocks fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1216 [inline] nilfs_segctor_collect fs/nilfs2/segment.c:1540 [inline] nilfs_segctor_do_construct+0x1c28/0x6b90 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2115 nilfs_segctor_construct+0x181/0x6b0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2479 nilfs_segctor_thread_construct fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2587 [inline] nilfs_segctor_thread+0x69e/0xe80 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2701 kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244 </TASK> Both of these issues are caused by the callbacks that handle the page/folio write requests, forcibly clear various states, including the working state of the buffers they hold, at unexpected times when they detect read-only fallback. Fix these issues by checking if the buffer is referenced before clearing the page/folio state, and skipping the clear if it is. | |
| Title | nilfs2: do not force clear folio if buffer is referenced | |
| References |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published:
Updated: 2025-11-03T19:36:21.865Z
Reserved: 2024-12-29T08:45:45.753Z
Link: CVE-2025-21722
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2025-11-03T19:36:21.865Z
NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2025-02-27T02:15:15.883
Modified: 2025-11-03T20:17:12.163
Link: CVE-2025-21722
Redhat
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