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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68240"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-16T14:21:17.710Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:49:32.618Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
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-2025-68240"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68240.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68240"
title: "nilfs2: avoid having an active sc_timer before freeing sci"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnilfs2: avoid having an active sc_timer before freeing sci\n\nBecause kthread_stop did not stop sc_task properly and returned -EINTR,\nthe sc_timer was not properly closed, ultimately causing the problem [1]\nreported by syzbot when freeing sci due to the sc_timer not being closed.\n\nBecause the thread sc_task main function nilfs_segctor_thread() returns 0\nwhen it succeeds, when the return value of kthread_stop() is not 0 in\nnilfs_segctor_destroy(), we believe that it has not properly closed\nsc_timer.\n\nWe use timer_shutdown_sync() to sync wait for sc_timer to shutdown, and\nset the value of sc_task to NULL under the protection of lock\nsc_state_lock, so as to avoid the issue caused by sc_timer not being\nproperly shutdowned.\n\n[1]\nODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object: 00000000dacb411a object type: timer_list hint: nilfs_construction_timeout\nCall trace:\n nilfs_segctor_destroy fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2811 [inline]\n nilfs_detach_log_writer+0x668/0x8cc fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2877\n nilfs_put_super+0x4c/0x12c fs/nilfs2/super.c:509"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3f66cc261ccb54a8e4d8d5aa51c389c19453b00c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36049e81dc7f077e0e24d5b9688a7458beacef8f"},{"version":"3f66cc261ccb54a8e4d8d5aa51c389c19453b00c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f65799e2a736d556d306440c4e1e8906736117a"},{"version":"3f66cc261ccb54a8e4d8d5aa51c389c19453b00c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a6b60cb147d53968753a34805211d2e5e08c027"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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