CVE-2025-68168
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
16/12/2025
Last modified:
18/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
jfs: fix uninitialized waitqueue in transaction manager<br />
<br />
The transaction manager initialization in txInit() was not properly<br />
initializing TxBlock[0].waitor waitqueue, causing a crash when<br />
txEnd(0) is called on read-only filesystems.<br />
<br />
When a filesystem is mounted read-only, txBegin() returns tid=0 to<br />
indicate no transaction. However, txEnd(0) still gets called and<br />
tries to access TxBlock[0].waitor via tid_to_tblock(0), but this<br />
waitqueue was never initialized because the initialization loop<br />
started at index 1 instead of 0.<br />
<br />
This causes a &#39;non-static key&#39; lockdep warning and system crash:<br />
INFO: trying to register non-static key in txEnd<br />
<br />
Fix by ensuring all transaction blocks including TxBlock[0] have<br />
their waitqueues properly initialized during txInit().
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/038861414ab383b41dd35abbf9ff0ef715592d53
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a9575a372182ca075070b3cd77490dcf0c951e7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/300b072df72694ea330c4c673c035253e07827b8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cae9cf23e0bd424ac904e753639a587543ce03a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2aa97cde9857f881920635a2e3d3b11769619c5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbf2f527ae4ca7c7dabce42e85e8deb58588a37e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2dd7ca05a11685c314e62802a55e8d67a90e974
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6af7fce2e162ac68e85d3a11eb6ac8c35b24b64



