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CVE-2025-68356

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2025
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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gfs2: Prevent recursive memory reclaim

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Prevent recursive memory reclaim Function new_inode() returns a new inode with inode->i_mapping->gfp_mask set to GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE. This value includes the __GFP_FS flag, so allocations in that address space can recurse into filesystem memory reclaim. We don't want that to happen because it can consume a significant amount of stack memory. Worse than that is that it can also deadlock: for example, in several places, gfs2_unstuff_dinode() is called inside filesystem transactions. This calls filemap_grab_folio(), which can allocate a new folio, which can trigger memory reclaim. If memory reclaim recurses into the filesystem and starts another transaction, a deadlock will ensue. To fix these kinds of problems, prevent memory reclaim from recursing into filesystem code by making sure that the gfp_mask of inode address spaces doesn't include __GFP_FS. The "meta" and resource group address spaces were already using GFP_NOFS as their gfp_mask (which doesn't include __GFP_FS). The default value of GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE is less restrictive than GFP_NOFS, though. To avoid being overly limiting, use the default value and only knock off the __GFP_FS flag. I'm not sure if this will actually make a difference, but it also shouldn't hurt. This patch is loosely based on commit ad22c7a043c2 ("xfs: prevent stack overflows from page cache allocation"). Fixes xfstest generic/273.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

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Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
dc0b9435238c1a68150c798c9c7a1b5d7414cbb9affectedgit66eb53cecc5f83183535bbfb2fa6464322049b61UnavailableNone listed
dc0b9435238c1a68150c798c9c7a1b5d7414cbb9affectedgitedb2b255618621dc83d0ec23150e16b2c697077fUnavailableNone listed
dc0b9435238c1a68150c798c9c7a1b5d7414cbb9affectedgit9c0960ed112398bdb6c60ccf6e6b583bc59acedeUnavailableNone listed
dc0b9435238c1a68150c798c9c7a1b5d7414cbb9affectedgit49e7347f4644d031306d56cb4d51e467cbdcbc69UnavailableNone listed
dc0b9435238c1a68150c798c9c7a1b5d7414cbb9affectedgit2c5f4a53476e3cab70adc77b38942c066bd2c17cUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
6.6affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver6.6UnavailableNone listed
6.6.160unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.63unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.17.13unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.17.*None listed
6.18.2unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
6.19unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed