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CVE-2025-40237
published 2025-12-04

CVE-2025-40237: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/notify: call exportfs_encode_fid with s_umount Calling intotify_show_fdinfo() on fd…

PriorityP421high7.8
EPSS
0.20%
9.6th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/notify: call exportfs_encode_fid with s_umount Calling intotify_show_fdinfo() on fd watching an overlayfs inode, while the overlayfs is being unmounted, can lead to dereferencing NULL ptr. This issue was found by syzkaller. Race Condition Diagram: Thread 1 Thread 2 -------- -------- generic_shutdown_super() shrink_dcache_for_umount sb->s_root = NULL | | vfs_read() | inotify_fdinfo() | * inode get from mark * | show_mark_fhandle(m, inode) | exportfs_encode_fid(inode, ..) | ovl_encode_fh(inode, ..) | ovl_check_encode_origin(inode) | * deref i_sb->s_root * | | v fsnotify_sb_delete(sb) Which then leads to: [ 32.133461] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI [ 32.134438] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037] [ 32.135032] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 4468 Comm: systemd-coredum Not tainted 6.17.0-rc6 #22 PREEMPT(none) [ 32.143353] Call Trace: [ 32.143732] ovl_encode_fh+0xd5/0x170 [ 32.144031] exportfs_encode_inode_fh+0x12f/0x300 [ 32.144425] show_mark_fhandle+0xbe/0x1f0 [ 32.145805] inotify_fdinfo+0x226/0x2d0 [ 32.146442] inotify_show_fdinfo+0x1c5/0x350 [ 32.147168] seq_show+0x530/0x6f0 [ 32.147449] seq_read_iter+0x503/0x12a0 [ 32.148419] seq_read+0x31f/0x410 [ 32.150714] vfs_read+0x1f0/0x9e0 [ 32.152297] ksys_read+0x125/0x240 IOW ovl_check_encode_origin derefs inode->i_sb->s_root, after it was set to NULL in the unmount path. Fix it by protecting calling exportfs_encode_fid() from show_mark_fhandle() with s_umount lock. This form of fix was suggested by Amir in [1]. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAOQ4uxhbDwhb+2Brs1UdkoF0a3NSdBAOQPNfEHjahrgoKJpLEw@mail.gmail.com/

Affected

21 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.17.6-1 (forky)linux 6.17.6-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 3c7c90274ae339e1ad443c9be1c67a20b80b9c76 < 3f307a9f7a7a2822e38ac451b73e2244e72794963f307a9f7a7a2822e38ac451b73e2244e7279496
linuxlinux>= 6.12.10 < 6.12.566.12.56
linuxlinux>= 6.6.72 < 6.6.736.6.73
linuxlinux>= 6.6.74 < 6.6.1156.6.115
linuxlinux>= a1a541fbfa7e97c1100144db34b57553d7164ce5 < 950b604384fd75d62e860bec7135b2b62eb4d508950b604384fd75d62e860bec7135b2b62eb4d508
linuxlinux>= c45beebfde34aa71afbc48b2c54cdda623515037 < d1894bc542becb0fda61e7e513b09523cab44030d1894bc542becb0fda61e7e513b09523cab44030
linuxlinux>= c45beebfde34aa71afbc48b2c54cdda623515037 < a7c4bb43bfdc2b9f06ee9d036028ed13a83df42aa7c4bb43bfdc2b9f06ee9d036028ed13a83df42a
linuxlinux>= f0c0ac84de17c37e6e84da65fb920f91dada55ad < bc1c6b803e14ea2b8f7e33b7164013f666ceb656bc1c6b803e14ea2b8f7e33b7164013f666ceb656
linuxlinux_kernel< 6.12.566.12.56
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.12.57-16.12.57-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.17.6-16.17.6-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.6.736.6.73
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.0-106.1066.8.0-106.106
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.17.0-14.146.17.0-14.14
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.13.0 < 6.17.66.17.6
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.7.0 < 6.6.1156.6.115
ubuntulinux-aws
ubuntulinux-oracle
ubuntulinux-xilinx

CVSS provenance

vendor_ubuntu7.8HIGH
osv3.2LOW
vendor_redhat5.8MEDIUM
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