linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-37741: jfs: Prevent copying of nlink with value 0 from disk inode

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Message-ID: <2025050133-CVE-2025-37741-3219@gregkh>
Date: Thu,  1 May 2025 14:56:47 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-37741: jfs: Prevent copying of nlink with value 0 from disk inode

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

jfs: Prevent copying of nlink with value 0 from disk inode

syzbot report a deadlock in diFree. [1]

When calling "ioctl$LOOP_SET_STATUS64", the offset value passed in is 4,
which does not match the mounted loop device, causing the mapping of the
mounted loop device to be invalidated.

When creating the directory and creating the inode of iag in diReadSpecial(),
read the page of fixed disk inode (AIT) in raw mode in read_metapage(), the
metapage data it returns is corrupted, which causes the nlink value of 0 to be
assigned to the iag inode when executing copy_from_dinode(), which ultimately
causes a deadlock when entering diFree().

To avoid this, first check the nlink value of dinode before setting iag inode.

[1]
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
6.12.0-rc7-syzkaller-00212-g4a5df3796467 #0 Not tainted
--------------------------------------------
syz-executor301/5309 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff888044548920 (&(imap->im_aglock[index])){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: diFree+0x37c/0x2fb0 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:889

but task is already holding lock:
ffff888044548920 (&(imap->im_aglock[index])){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: diAlloc+0x1b6/0x1630

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0
       ----
  lock(&(imap->im_aglock[index]));
  lock(&(imap->im_aglock[index]));

 *** DEADLOCK ***

 May be due to missing lock nesting notation

5 locks held by syz-executor301/5309:
 #0: ffff8880422a4420 (sb_writers#9){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: mnt_want_write+0x3f/0x90 fs/namespace.c:515
 #1: ffff88804755b390 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#6/1){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: inode_lock_nested include/linux/fs.h:850 [inline]
 #1: ffff88804755b390 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#6/1){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: filename_create+0x260/0x540 fs/namei.c:4026
 #2: ffff888044548920 (&(imap->im_aglock[index])){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: diAlloc+0x1b6/0x1630
 #3: ffff888044548890 (&imap->im_freelock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: diNewIAG fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:2460 [inline]
 #3: ffff888044548890 (&imap->im_freelock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: diAllocExt fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:1905 [inline]
 #3: ffff888044548890 (&imap->im_freelock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: diAllocAG+0x4b7/0x1e50 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:1669
 #4: ffff88804755a618 (&jfs_ip->rdwrlock/1){++++}-{3:3}, at: diNewIAG fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:2477 [inline]
 #4: ffff88804755a618 (&jfs_ip->rdwrlock/1){++++}-{3:3}, at: diAllocExt fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:1905 [inline]
 #4: ffff88804755a618 (&jfs_ip->rdwrlock/1){++++}-{3:3}, at: diAllocAG+0x869/0x1e50 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:1669

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5309 Comm: syz-executor301 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-syzkaller-00212-g4a5df3796467 #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_deadlock_bug+0x483/0x620 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3037
 check_deadlock kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3089 [inline]
 validate_chain+0x15e2/0x5920 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3891
 __lock_acquire+0x1384/0x2050 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5202
 lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:608 [inline]
 __mutex_lock+0x136/0xd70 kernel/locking/mutex.c:752
 diFree+0x37c/0x2fb0 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:889
 jfs_evict_inode+0x32d/0x440 fs/jfs/inode.c:156
 evict+0x4e8/0x9b0 fs/inode.c:725
 diFreeSpecial fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:552 [inline]
 duplicateIXtree+0x3c6/0x550 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:3022
 diNewIAG fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:2597 [inline]
 diAllocExt fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:1905 [inline]
 diAllocAG+0x17dc/0x1e50 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:1669
 diAlloc+0x1d2/0x1630 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:1590
 ialloc+0x8f/0x900 fs/jfs/jfs_inode.c:56
 jfs_mkdir+0x1c5/0xba0 fs/jfs/namei.c:225
 vfs_mkdir+0x2f9/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:4257
 do_mkdirat+0x264/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:4280
 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4295 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4293 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x87/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4293
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-37741 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 6.1.135 with commit c9541c2bd0edbdbc5c1148a84d3b48dc8d1b8af2
	Fixed in 6.6.88 with commit b3c4884b987e5d8d0ec061a4d52653c4f4b9c37e
	Fixed in 6.12.24 with commit aeb926e605f97857504bdf748f575e40617e2ef9
	Fixed in 6.13.12 with commit 994787341358816d91b2fded288ecb7f129f2b27
	Fixed in 6.14.3 with commit a2b560815528ae8e266fca6038bb5585d13aaef4
	Fixed in 6.15-rc1 with commit b61e69bb1c049cf507e3c654fa3dc1568231bd07

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-37741
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9541c2bd0edbdbc5c1148a84d3b48dc8d1b8af2
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3c4884b987e5d8d0ec061a4d52653c4f4b9c37e
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aeb926e605f97857504bdf748f575e40617e2ef9
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/994787341358816d91b2fded288ecb7f129f2b27
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2b560815528ae8e266fca6038bb5585d13aaef4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b61e69bb1c049cf507e3c654fa3dc1568231bd07