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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38063" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:33:41.977Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:06:24.829Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38063" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38063.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38063" title: "dm: fix unconditional IO throttle caused by REQ_PREFLUSH" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm: fix unconditional IO throttle caused by REQ_PREFLUSH\n\nWhen a bio with REQ_PREFLUSH is submitted to dm, __send_empty_flush()\ngenerates a flush_bio with REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_SYNC,\nwhich causes the flush_bio to be throttled by wbt_wait().\n\nAn example from v5.4, similar problem also exists in upstream:\n\n crash\u003e bt 2091206\n PID: 2091206 TASK: ffff2050df92a300 CPU: 109 COMMAND: \"kworker/u260:0\"\n #0 [ffff800084a2f7f0] __switch_to at ffff80004008aeb8\n #1 [ffff800084a2f820] __schedule at ffff800040bfa0c4\n #2 [ffff800084a2f880] schedule at ffff800040bfa4b4\n #3 [ffff800084a2f8a0] io_schedule at ffff800040bfa9c4\n #4 [ffff800084a2f8c0] rq_qos_wait at ffff8000405925bc\n #5 [ffff800084a2f940] wbt_wait at ffff8000405bb3a0\n #6 [ffff800084a2f9a0] __rq_qos_throttle at ffff800040592254\n #7 [ffff800084a2f9c0] blk_mq_make_request at ffff80004057cf38\n #8 [ffff800084a2fa60] generic_make_request at ffff800040570138\n #9 [ffff800084a2fae0] submit_bio at ffff8000405703b4\n #10 [ffff800084a2fb50] xlog_write_iclog at ffff800001280834 [xfs]\n #11 [ffff800084a2fbb0] xlog_sync at ffff800001280c3c [xfs]\n #12 [ffff800084a2fbf0] xlog_state_release_iclog at ffff800001280df4 [xfs]\n #13 [ffff800084a2fc10] xlog_write at ffff80000128203c [xfs]\n #14 [ffff800084a2fcd0] xlog_cil_push at ffff8000012846dc [xfs]\n #15 [ffff800084a2fda0] xlog_cil_push_work at ffff800001284a2c [xfs]\n #16 [ffff800084a2fdb0] process_one_work at ffff800040111d08\n #17 [ffff800084a2fe00] worker_thread at ffff8000401121cc\n #18 [ffff800084a2fe70] kthread at ffff800040118de4\n\nAfter commit 2def2845cc33 (\"xfs: don't allow log IO to be throttled\"),\nthe metadata submitted by xlog_write_iclog() should not be throttled.\nBut due to the existence of the dm layer, throttling flush_bio indirectly\ncauses the metadata bio to be throttled.\n\nFix this by conditionally adding REQ_IDLE to flush_bio.bi_opf, which makes\nwbt_should_throttle() return false to avoid wbt_wait()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e34cbd307477ae07c5d8a8d0bd15e65a9ddaba5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"95d08924335f3b6f4ea0b92ebfe4fe0731c502d9"},{"version":"e34cbd307477ae07c5d8a8d0bd15e65a9ddaba5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52aa28f7b1708d76e315d78b5ed397932a1a97c3"},{"version":"e34cbd307477ae07c5d8a8d0bd15e65a9ddaba5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b55a97d1bd4083729a60d19beffe85d4c96680de"},{"version":"e34cbd307477ae07c5d8a8d0bd15e65a9ddaba5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2858cda9a8d95e6deee7e3b0a26adde696a9a4f5"},{"version":"e34cbd307477ae07c5d8a8d0bd15e65a9ddaba5c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88f7f56d16f568f19e1a695af34a7f4a6ce537a6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"6.1.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.31","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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