CVE-2025-68168

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However, txEnd(0) still gets called and\ntries to access TxBlock[0].waitor via tid_to_tblock(0), but this\nwaitqueue was never initialized because the initialization loop\nstarted at index 1 instead of 0.\n\nThis causes a 'non-static key' lockdep warning and system crash:\n INFO: trying to register non-static key in txEnd\n\nFix by ensuring all transaction blocks including TxBlock[0] have\ntheir waitqueues properly initialized during txInit()."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The vulnerable code is reached only through local filesystem operations on a mounted JFS volume (mount/remount plus ordinary syscalls such as creat/unlink/close); no remote peer data is parsed anywhere on the path.\nAC:L - Once a JFS volume has `sbi->log == NULL` (plain `mount -o ro`, remount-ro, or a failed `remount,rw` that still clears SB_RDONLY), `txBegin()` deterministically returns tid 0 and the very next `txEnd(0)` hits the uninitialized `TxBlock[0]`; there is no race to win and no memory layout the attacker must guess.\nPR:L - The trigger is an ordinary unprivileged file operation on an already-mounted volume, and the mount itself is routinely performed on the attacker's behalf by udisks/automount for removable media or by an admin handling an untrusted image \u2014 the standard crafted-filesystem-image model used for comparable fs CVEs.\nUI:N - After the volume is mounted as part of normal system operation, the attacker performs the triggering syscall entirely on their own; no victim action is needed at exploitation time.\nS:U - The corruption is confined to kernel memory within the same kernel security authority; no hypervisor, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - `txEnd(0)` dereferences the uninitialized `tblk->sb` (`JFS_SBI(tblk->sb)->log`) and `__wake_up_common()` walks an uninitialized list head, so the kernel reads through pointers taken from recycled vmalloc pages \u2014 an unbounded wild read of arbitrary kernel memory, not a bounded NULL dereference.\nI:H - The same path writes through those uninitialized pointers (`--log->active`, `tblk->flag |= tblkGC_UNLOCKED`, `spin_lock_irq(&log->gclock)`) and performs an indirect call `curr->func(...)` through an uninitialized function pointer, giving both a write and a control-flow-hijack primitive; it additionally corrupts global JFS state by setting `TxAnchor.freetid = 0`.\nA:H - Real-world outcome is a hard kernel failure \u2014 lockdep \"non-static key\" BUG, wild-pointer oops, or an endless spin on a garbage spinlock with the global `jfsTxnLock` held and IRQs disabled (hard lockup) \u2014 and even in the benign case the zeroed `TxAnchor.freetid` permanently wedges every JFS transaction on the machine."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": 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However, txEnd(0) still gets called and\ntries to access TxBlock[0].waitor via tid_to_tblock(0), but this\nwaitqueue was never initialized because the initialization loop\nstarted at index 1 instead of 0.\n\nThis causes a 'non-static key' lockdep warning and system crash:\n INFO: trying to register non-static key in txEnd\n\nFix by ensuring all transaction blocks including TxBlock[0] have\ntheir waitqueues properly initialized during txInit()."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, la siguiente vulnerabilidad ha sido resuelta:\n\njfs: correcci\u00f3n de waitqueue no inicializada en el gestor de transacciones\n\nLa inicializaci\u00f3n del gestor de transacciones en txInit() no estaba inicializando correctamente la waitqueue TxBlock[0].waitor, causando un fallo cuando se llama a txEnd(0) en sistemas de archivos de solo lectura.\n\nCuando un sistema de archivos se monta como de solo lectura, txBegin() devuelve tid=0 para indicar que no hay transacci\u00f3n. Sin embargo, txEnd(0) a\u00fan se llama e intenta acceder a TxBlock[0].waitor a trav\u00e9s de tid_to_tblock(0), pero esta waitqueue nunca fue inicializada porque el bucle de inicializaci\u00f3n comenz\u00f3 en el \u00edndice 1 en lugar de 0.\n\nEsto causa una advertencia de lockdep de 'non-static key' y un fallo del sistema:\n INFO: intentando registrar una clave no est\u00e1tica en txEnd\n\nCorrecci\u00f3n asegurando que todos los bloques de transacci\u00f3n, incluyendo TxBlock[0], tengan sus waitqueues correctamente inicializadas durante txInit()."}], "id": "CVE-2025-68168", "lastModified": "2026-10-14T13:10:00.187", "metrics": {"cvssMetricV31": [{"cvssData": {"attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackVector": "LOCAL", "availabilityImpact": "HIGH", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH", "integrityImpact": "HIGH", "privilegesRequired": "LOW", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "version": "3.1"}, "exploitabilityScore": 1.8, "impactScore": 5.9, "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "type": "Secondary"}]}, "published": "2025-12-16T14:15:48.647", "references": [{"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/038861414ab383b41dd35abbf9ff0ef715592d53"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a9575a372182ca075070b3cd77490dcf0c951e7"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/300b072df72694ea330c4c673c035253e07827b8"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cae9cf23e0bd424ac904e753639a587543ce03a"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2aa97cde9857f881920635a2e3d3b11769619c5"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbf2f527ae4ca7c7dabce42e85e8deb58588a37e"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2dd7ca05a11685c314e62802a55e8d67a90e974"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6af7fce2e162ac68e85d3a11eb6ac8c35b24b64"}], "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "vulnStatus": "Deferred"}

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