CVE-2025-21643 (GCVE-0-2025-21643)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-19 10:17
Modified
2025-05-04 07:18
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix kernel async DIO Netfslib needs to be able to handle kernel-initiated asynchronous DIO that is supplied with a bio_vec[] array. Currently, because of the async flag, this gets passed to netfs_extract_user_iter() which throws a warning and fails because it only handles IOVEC and UBUF iterators. This can be triggered through a combination of cifs and a loopback blockdev with something like: mount //my/cifs/share /foo dd if=/dev/zero of=/foo/m0 bs=4K count=1K losetup --sector-size 4096 --direct-io=on /dev/loop2046 /foo/m0 echo hello >/dev/loop2046 This causes the following to appear in syslog: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 109 at fs/netfs/iterator.c:50 netfs_extract_user_iter+0x170/0x250 [netfs] and the write to fail. Fix this by removing the check in netfs_unbuffered_write_iter_locked() that causes async kernel DIO writes to be handled as userspace writes. Note that this change relies on the kernel caller maintaining the existence of the bio_vec array (or kvec[] or folio_queue) until the op is complete.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f6bc9e3ab9b127171d39f9ac6eca1abb693b731
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f3a265836844eda30bf34c2584b8011fd4f0f49
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Linux Linux Version: 153a9961b551101cd38e94e26cd92fbfd198b19b
Version: 153a9961b551101cd38e94e26cd92fbfd198b19b
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