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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38194"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-04T13:37:17.922Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:23:04.119Z"
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-2025-38194"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38194.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38194"
title: "jffs2: check that raw node were preallocated before writing summary"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njffs2: check that raw node were preallocated before writing summary\n\nSyzkaller detected a kernel bug in jffs2_link_node_ref, caused by fault\ninjection in jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs. jffs2_sum_write_sumnode doesn't\ncheck return value of jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs and simply lets any\nerror propagate into jffs2_sum_write_data, which eventually calls\njffs2_link_node_ref in order to link the summary to an expectedly allocated\nnode.\n\nkernel BUG at fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:592!\ninvalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nCPU: 1 PID: 31277 Comm: syz-executor.7 Not tainted 6.1.128-syzkaller-00139-ge10f83ca10a1 #0\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:jffs2_link_node_ref+0x570/0x690 fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:592\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n jffs2_sum_write_data fs/jffs2/summary.c:841 [inline]\n jffs2_sum_write_sumnode+0xd1a/0x1da0 fs/jffs2/summary.c:874\n jffs2_do_reserve_space+0xa18/0xd60 fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:388\n jffs2_reserve_space+0x55f/0xaa0 fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:197\n jffs2_write_inode_range+0x246/0xb50 fs/jffs2/write.c:362\n jffs2_write_end+0x726/0x15d0 fs/jffs2/file.c:301\n generic_perform_write+0x314/0x5d0 mm/filemap.c:3856\n __generic_file_write_iter+0x2ae/0x4d0 mm/filemap.c:3973\n generic_file_write_iter+0xe3/0x350 mm/filemap.c:4005\n call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2265 [inline]\n do_iter_readv_writev+0x20f/0x3c0 fs/read_write.c:735\n do_iter_write+0x186/0x710 fs/read_write.c:861\n vfs_iter_write+0x70/0xa0 fs/read_write.c:902\n iter_file_splice_write+0x73b/0xc90 fs/splice.c:685\n do_splice_from fs/splice.c:763 [inline]\n direct_splice_actor+0x10c/0x170 fs/splice.c:950\n splice_direct_to_actor+0x337/0xa10 fs/splice.c:896\n do_splice_direct+0x1a9/0x280 fs/splice.c:1002\n do_sendfile+0xb13/0x12c0 fs/read_write.c:1255\n __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1323 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1309 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendfile64+0x1cf/0x210 fs/read_write.c:1309\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n\nFix this issue by checking return value of jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs\nbefore calling jffs2_sum_write_data.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller."
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