linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38221: ext4: fix out of bounds punch offset

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Message-ID: <2025070425-CVE-2025-38221-f152@gregkh>
Date: Fri,  4 Jul 2025 15:37:50 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38221: ext4: fix out of bounds punch offset

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

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

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

ext4: fix out of bounds punch offset

Punching a hole with a start offset that exceeds max_end is not
permitted and will result in a negative length in the
truncate_inode_partial_folio() function while truncating the page cache,
potentially leading to undesirable consequences.

A simple reproducer:

  truncate -s 9895604649994 /mnt/foo
  xfs_io -c "pwrite 8796093022208 4096" /mnt/foo
  xfs_io -c "fpunch 8796093022213 25769803777" /mnt/foo

  kernel BUG at include/linux/highmem.h:275!
  Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
  CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 710 Comm: xfs_io Not tainted 6.15.0-rc3
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:zero_user_segments.constprop.0+0xd7/0x110
  RSP: 0018:ffffc90001cf3b38 EFLAGS: 00010287
  RAX: 0000000000000005 RBX: ffffea0001485e40 RCX: 0000000000001000
  RDX: 000000000040b000 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 000000000040b000
  RBP: 000000000040affb R08: ffff888000000000 R09: ffffea0000000000
  R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 00000000fffc7fc5 R12: 0000000000000005
  R13: 000000000040affb R14: ffffea0001485e40 R15: ffff888031cd3000
  FS:  00007f4f63d0b780(0000) GS:ffff8880d337d000(0000)
  knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 000000001ae0b038 CR3: 00000000536aa000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   truncate_inode_partial_folio+0x3dd/0x620
   truncate_inode_pages_range+0x226/0x720
   ? bdev_getblk+0x52/0x3e0
   ? ext4_get_group_desc+0x78/0x150
   ? crc32c_arch+0xfd/0x180
   ? __ext4_get_inode_loc+0x18c/0x840
   ? ext4_inode_csum+0x117/0x160
   ? jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x61/0x390
   ? __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0xa0/0x2b0
   ? kmem_cache_free+0x90/0x5a0
   ? jbd2_journal_stop+0x1d5/0x550
   ? __ext4_journal_stop+0x49/0x100
   truncate_pagecache_range+0x50/0x80
   ext4_truncate_page_cache_block_range+0x57/0x3a0
   ext4_punch_hole+0x1fe/0x670
   ext4_fallocate+0x792/0x17d0
   ? __count_memcg_events+0x175/0x2a0
   vfs_fallocate+0x121/0x560
   ksys_fallocate+0x51/0xc0
   __x64_sys_fallocate+0x24/0x40
   x64_sys_call+0x18d2/0x4170
   do_syscall_64+0xa7/0x220
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Fix this by filtering out cases where the punching start offset exceeds
max_end.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38221 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.15 with commit 982bf37da09d078570650b691d9084f43805a5de and fixed in 6.15.4 with commit 28b62cb58fd014338f5004170f2e3a35bf0af238
	Issue introduced in 6.15 with commit 982bf37da09d078570650b691d9084f43805a5de and fixed in 6.16-rc1 with commit b5e58bcd79625423487fa3ecba8e8411b5396327

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-2025-38221
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/ext4/inode.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/28b62cb58fd014338f5004170f2e3a35bf0af238
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5e58bcd79625423487fa3ecba8e8411b5396327