linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-37806: fs/ntfs3: Keep write operations atomic

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Message-ID: <2025050815-CVE-2025-37806-a6a5@gregkh>
Date: Thu,  8 May 2025 08:39:15 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-37806: fs/ntfs3: Keep write operations atomic

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

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

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

fs/ntfs3: Keep write operations atomic

syzbot reported a NULL pointer dereference in __generic_file_write_iter. [1]

Before the write operation is completed, the user executes ioctl[2] to clear
the compress flag of the file, which causes the is_compressed() judgment to
return 0, further causing the program to enter the wrong process and call the
wrong ops ntfs_aops_cmpr, which triggers the null pointer dereference of
write_begin.

Use inode lock to synchronize ioctl and write to avoid this case.

[1]
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000086000006
  EC = 0x21: IABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000011896d000
[0000000000000000] pgd=0800000118b44403, p4d=0800000118b44403, pud=0800000117517403, pmd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6427 Comm: syz-executor347 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-g573067a5a685 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : 0x0
lr : generic_perform_write+0x29c/0x868 mm/filemap.c:4055
sp : ffff80009d4978a0
x29: ffff80009d4979c0 x28: dfff800000000000 x27: ffff80009d497bc8
x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff80009d497960 x24: ffff80008ba71c68
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffff0000c655dac0 x21: 0000000000001000
x20: 000000000000000c x19: 1ffff00013a92f2c x18: ffff0000e183aa1c
x17: 0004060000000014 x16: ffff800083275834 x15: 0000000000000001
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000001 x12: ffff0000c655dac0
x11: 0000000000ff0100 x10: 0000000000ff0100 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : ffff80009d497980 x4 : ffff80009d497960 x3 : 0000000000001000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff0000e183a928 x0 : ffff0000d60b0fc0
Call trace:
 0x0 (P)
 __generic_file_write_iter+0xfc/0x204 mm/filemap.c:4156
 ntfs_file_write_iter+0x54c/0x630 fs/ntfs3/file.c:1267
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:586 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x920/0xcf4 fs/read_write.c:679
 ksys_write+0x15c/0x26c fs/read_write.c:731
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:742 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:739 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_write+0x7c/0x90 fs/read_write.c:739
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132
 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151
 el0_svc+0x54/0x168 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:744
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x108 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:762

[2]
ioctl$FS_IOC_SETFLAGS(r0, 0x40086602, &(0x7f00000000c0)=0x20)

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-37806 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 6.12.26 with commit 8db49e89a7f8b48ee59fa9ad32b6ed0879747df8
	Fixed in 6.14.5 with commit 464139e18f619aa14fb921a61721862f43421c54
	Fixed in 6.15-rc1 with commit 285cec318bf5a7a6c8ba999b2b6ec96f9a20590f

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-2025-37806
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/ntfs3/file.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/8db49e89a7f8b48ee59fa9ad32b6ed0879747df8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/464139e18f619aa14fb921a61721862f43421c54
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/285cec318bf5a7a6c8ba999b2b6ec96f9a20590f