CVE-2025-37876

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> netfs: Only create /proc/fs/netfs with CONFIG_PROC_FS<br /> <br /> When testing a special config:<br /> <br /> CONFIG_NETFS_SUPPORTS=y<br /> CONFIG_PROC_FS=n<br /> <br /> The system crashes with something like:<br /> <br /> [ 3.766197] ------------[ cut here ]------------<br /> [ 3.766484] kernel BUG at mm/mempool.c:560!<br /> [ 3.766789] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI<br /> [ 3.767123] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W<br /> [ 3.767777] Tainted: [W]=WARN<br /> [ 3.767968] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),<br /> [ 3.768523] RIP: 0010:mempool_alloc_slab.cold+0x17/0x19<br /> [ 3.768847] Code: 50 fe ff 58 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f e9 93 95 13 00<br /> [ 3.769977] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000013998 EFLAGS: 00010286<br /> [ 3.770315] RAX: 000000000000002f RBX: ffff888100ba8640 RCX: 0000000000000000<br /> [ 3.770749] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 00000000ffffffff<br /> [ 3.771217] RBP: 0000000000092880 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc90000013828<br /> [ 3.771664] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 00000000ffffffea R12: 0000000000092cc0<br /> [ 3.772117] R13: 0000000000000400 R14: ffff8881004b1620 R15: ffffea0004ef7e40<br /> [ 3.772554] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881b5f3c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br /> [ 3.773061] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br /> [ 3.773443] CR2: ffffffff830901b4 CR3: 0000000004296001 CR4: 0000000000770ef0<br /> [ 3.773884] PKRU: 55555554<br /> [ 3.774058] Call Trace:<br /> [ 3.774232] <br /> [ 3.774371] mempool_alloc_noprof+0x6a/0x190<br /> [ 3.774649] ? _printk+0x57/0x80<br /> [ 3.774862] netfs_alloc_request+0x85/0x2ce<br /> [ 3.775147] netfs_readahead+0x28/0x170<br /> [ 3.775395] read_pages+0x6c/0x350<br /> [ 3.775623] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5<br /> [ 3.775928] page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x1bd/0x2a0<br /> [ 3.776247] filemap_get_pages+0x139/0x970<br /> [ 3.776510] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5<br /> [ 3.776820] filemap_read+0xf9/0x580<br /> [ 3.777054] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5<br /> [ 3.777368] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5<br /> [ 3.777674] ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90<br /> [ 3.777929] ? netfs_start_io_read+0x19/0x70<br /> [ 3.778221] ? netfs_start_io_read+0x19/0x70<br /> [ 3.778489] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5<br /> [ 3.778800] ? lock_acquired+0x1e6/0x450<br /> [ 3.779054] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5<br /> [ 3.779379] netfs_buffered_read_iter+0x57/0x80<br /> [ 3.779670] __kernel_read+0x158/0x2c0<br /> [ 3.779927] bprm_execve+0x300/0x7a0<br /> [ 3.780185] kernel_execve+0x10c/0x140<br /> [ 3.780423] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10<br /> [ 3.780690] kernel_init+0xd5/0x150<br /> [ 3.780910] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50<br /> [ 3.781156] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10<br /> [ 3.781414] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30<br /> [ 3.781677] <br /> [ 3.781823] Modules linked in:<br /> [ 3.782065] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---<br /> <br /> This is caused by the following error path in netfs_init():<br /> <br /> if (!proc_mkdir("fs/netfs", NULL))<br /> goto error_proc;<br /> <br /> Fix this by adding ifdef in netfs_main(), so that /proc/fs/netfs is only<br /> created with CONFIG_PROC_FS.