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 &amp;#39;non-static key&amp;#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().

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