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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39878"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-23T06:00:48.850Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:37:31.515Z"
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-2025-39878"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39878.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39878"
title: "ceph: fix crash after fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks() error"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nceph: fix crash after fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks() error\n\nThe function move_dirty_folio_in_page_array() was created by commit\nce80b76dd327 (\"ceph: introduce ceph_process_folio_batch() method\") by\nmoving code from ceph_writepages_start() to this function.\n\nThis new function is supposed to return an error code which is checked\nby the caller (now ceph_process_folio_batch()), and on error, the\ncaller invokes redirty_page_for_writepage() and then breaks from the\nloop.\n\nHowever, the refactoring commit has gone wrong, and it by accident, it\nalways returns 0 (= success) because it first NULLs the pointer and\nthen returns PTR_ERR(NULL) which is always 0.  This means errors are\nsilently ignored, leaving NULL entries in the page array, which may\nlater crash the kernel.\n\nThe simple solution is to call PTR_ERR() before clearing the pointer."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0f2b2b7cacf888229cec19126e6791b11fb35f32","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a918f04cf97b2436a8dfe5cb51bb33f8e8831f4"},{"version":"ce80b76dd32764cc914975777e058d4fae4f0ea0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd1616ecbea920d228c56729461ed223cc501425"},{"version":"ce80b76dd32764cc914975777e058d4fae4f0ea0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"249e0a47cdb46bb9eae65511c569044bd8698d7d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.16.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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