CVE-2025-38411

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfs: Fix double put of request

If a netfs request finishes during the pause loop, it will have the ref that belongs to the IN_PROGRESS flag removed at that point - however, if it then goes to the final wait loop, that will also put the ref because it sees that the IN_PROGRESS flag is clear and incorrectly assumes that this happened when it called the collector.

In fact, since IN_PROGRESS is clear, we shouldn't call the collector again since it's done all the cleanup, such as calling ->ki_complete().

Fix this by making netfs_collect_in_app() just return, indicating that we're done if IN_PROGRESS is removed.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux329ba1cb402ac328224965b8fc7a554a5150908e < d18facba5a5795ad44b2a00a052e3db2fa77ab12affected
LinuxLinux2b1424cd131cfaba4cf7040473133d26cddac088 < 9df7b5ebead649b00bf9a53a798e4bf83a1318fdaffected
LinuxLinux6.15.3 < 6.15.6affected

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