CVE-2025-38691

Summary

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

pNFS: Fix uninited ptr deref in block/scsi layout

The error occurs on the third attempt to encode extents. When function ext_tree_prepare_commit() reallocates a larger buffer to retry encoding extents, the "layoutupdate_pages" page array is initialized only after the retry loop. But ext_tree_free_commitdata() is called on every iteration and tries to put pages in the array, thus dereferencing uninitialized pointers.

An additional problem is that there is no limit on the maximum possible buffer_size. When there are too many extents, the client may create a layoutcommit that is larger than the maximum possible RPC size accepted by the server.

During testing, we observed two typical scenarios. First, one memory page for extents is enough when we work with small files, append data to the end of the file, or preallocate extents before writing. But when we fill a new large file without preallocating, the number of extents can be huge, and counting the number of written extents in ext_tree_encode_commit() does not help much. Since this number increases even more between unlocking and locking of ext_tree, the reallocated buffer may not be large enough again and again.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux34dc93c2fc04da0d01acf8a1660b4ab276208af7 < 579b85f893d9885162e1cabf99a4a088916e143eaffected
LinuxLinux34dc93c2fc04da0d01acf8a1660b4ab276208af7 < 2896f101110076ac6bf99d7aaf463d61e26f89ddaffected
LinuxLinux34dc93c2fc04da0d01acf8a1660b4ab276208af7 < 4f783333cbfa2ee7d4aa8e47f6bd1b3f77534fcfaffected
LinuxLinux34dc93c2fc04da0d01acf8a1660b4ab276208af7 < 9be5c04beca3202d0a5f09fb4b2ecb644caa0bc5affected
LinuxLinux34dc93c2fc04da0d01acf8a1660b4ab276208af7 < 24334f3cf8a294f253071b5bf22d754dbb6d0f2daffected
LinuxLinux34dc93c2fc04da0d01acf8a1660b4ab276208af7 < f0b2eee3fbba9b7e3746ef698424ef5e4a197776affected
LinuxLinux34dc93c2fc04da0d01acf8a1660b4ab276208af7 < 94ec6d939031a616474376dadbf4a8d0ef8b0bccaffected
LinuxLinux34dc93c2fc04da0d01acf8a1660b4ab276208af7 < 37c3443a2685528f972d910a6fb87716b96fef46affected
LinuxLinux34dc93c2fc04da0d01acf8a1660b4ab276208af7 < 9768797c219326699778fba9cd3b607b2f1e7950affected
LinuxLinux3.18affected
LinuxLinux0 < 3.18unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.297 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.241 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.190 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.149 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.103 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.43 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.15.11 <= 6.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.16.2 <= 6.16.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.17 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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