CVE-2025-39885
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
23/09/2025
Last modified:
23/09/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
ocfs2: fix recursive semaphore deadlock in fiemap call<br />
<br />
syzbot detected a OCFS2 hang due to a recursive semaphore on a<br />
FS_IOC_FIEMAP of the extent list on a specially crafted mmap file.<br />
<br />
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5357 [inline]<br />
__schedule+0x1798/0x4cc0 kernel/sched/core.c:6961<br />
__schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7043 [inline]<br />
schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7058<br />
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:7115<br />
rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x872/0xfe0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1185<br />
__down_write_common kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1317 [inline]<br />
__down_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1326 [inline]<br />
down_write+0x1ab/0x1f0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1591<br />
ocfs2_page_mkwrite+0x2ff/0xc40 fs/ocfs2/mmap.c:142<br />
do_page_mkwrite+0x14d/0x310 mm/memory.c:3361<br />
wp_page_shared mm/memory.c:3762 [inline]<br />
do_wp_page+0x268d/0x5800 mm/memory.c:3981<br />
handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6068 [inline]<br />
__handle_mm_fault+0x1033/0x5440 mm/memory.c:6195<br />
handle_mm_fault+0x40a/0x8e0 mm/memory.c:6364<br />
do_user_addr_fault+0x764/0x1390 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1387<br />
handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1476 [inline]<br />
exc_page_fault+0x76/0xf0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1532<br />
asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:623<br />
RIP: 0010:copy_user_generic arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:126 [inline]<br />
RIP: 0010:raw_copy_to_user arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:147 [inline]<br />
RIP: 0010:_inline_copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:197 [inline]<br />
RIP: 0010:_copy_to_user+0x85/0xb0 lib/usercopy.c:26<br />
Code: e8 00 bc f7 fc 4d 39 fc 72 3d 4d 39 ec 77 38 e8 91 b9 f7 fc 4c 89<br />
f7 89 de e8 47 25 5b fd 0f 01 cb 4c 89 ff 48 89 d9 4c 89 f6 a4 0f<br />
1f 00 48 89 cb 0f 01 ca 48 89 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41<br />
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000403f950 EFLAGS: 00050256<br />
RAX: ffffffff84c7f101 RBX: 0000000000000038 RCX: 0000000000000038<br />
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffc9000403f9e0 RDI: 0000200000000060<br />
RBP: ffffc9000403fa90 R08: ffffc9000403fa17 R09: 1ffff92000807f42<br />
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000807f43 R12: 0000200000000098<br />
R13: 00007ffffffff000 R14: ffffc9000403f9e0 R15: 0000200000000060<br />
copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:225 [inline]<br />
fiemap_fill_next_extent+0x1c0/0x390 fs/ioctl.c:145<br />
ocfs2_fiemap+0x888/0xc90 fs/ocfs2/extent_map.c:806<br />
ioctl_fiemap fs/ioctl.c:220 [inline]<br />
do_vfs_ioctl+0x1173/0x1430 fs/ioctl.c:532<br />
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:596 [inline]<br />
__se_sys_ioctl+0x82/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:584<br />
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]<br />
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f<br />
RIP: 0033:0x7f5f13850fd9<br />
RSP: 002b:00007ffe3b3518b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010<br />
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000200000000000 RCX: 00007f5f13850fd9<br />
RDX: 0000200000000040 RSI: 00000000c020660b RDI: 0000000000000004<br />
RBP: 6165627472616568 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000<br />
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffe3b3518f0<br />
R13: 00007ffe3b351b18 R14: 431bde82d7b634db R15: 00007f5f1389a03b<br />
<br />
ocfs2_fiemap() takes a read lock of the ip_alloc_sem semaphore (since<br />
v2.6.22-527-g7307de80510a) and calls fiemap_fill_next_extent() to read the<br />
extent list of this running mmap executable. The user supplied buffer to<br />
hold the fiemap information page faults calling ocfs2_page_mkwrite() which<br />
will take a write lock (since v2.6.27-38-g00dc417fa3e7) of the same<br />
semaphore. This recursive semaphore will hold filesystem locks and causes<br />
a hang of the fileystem.<br />
<br />
The ip_alloc_sem protects the inode extent list and size. Release the<br />
read semphore before calling fiemap_fill_next_extent() in ocfs2_fiemap()<br />
and ocfs2_fiemap_inline(). This does an unnecessary semaphore lock/unlock<br />
on the last extent but simplifies the error path.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04100f775c2ea501927f508f17ad824ad1f23c8d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0709bc11b942870fc0a7be150e42aea42321093a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d3c96547ee2ddeaddf8f19a3ef99ea06cc8115e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36054554772f95d090eb45793faf6aa3c0254b02
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9efcb7a8b97310efed995397941a292cf89fa94f