In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfs: Fix kernel async DIO
Netfslib needs to be able to handle kernel-initiated asynchronous DIO that
is supplied with a bio_vec[] array. Currently, because of the async flag,
this gets passed to netfs_extract_user_iter() which throws a warning and
fails because it only handles IOVEC and UBUF iterators. This can be
triggered through a combination of cifs and a loopback blockdev with
something like:
mount //my/cifs/share /foo
dd if=/dev/zero of=/foo/m0 bs=4K count=1K
losetup --sector-size 4096 --direct-io=on /dev/loop2046 /foo/m0
echo hello >/dev/loop2046
This causes the following to appear in syslog:
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 109 at fs/netfs/iterator.c:50 netfs_extract_user_iter+0x170/0x250 [netfs]
and the write to fail.
Fix this by removing the check in netfs_unbuffered_write_iter_locked() that
causes async kernel DIO writes to be handled as userspace writes. Note
that this change relies on the kernel caller maintaining the existence of
the bio_vec array (or kvec[] or folio_queue) until the op is complete.
References
Configurations
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History
16 Oct 2025, 19:17
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CWE | NVD-CWE-noinfo | |
CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5 |
First Time |
Linux
Linux linux Kernel |
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References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f6bc9e3ab9b127171d39f9ac6eca1abb693b731 - Patch | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f3a265836844eda30bf34c2584b8011fd4f0f49 - Patch | |
CPE | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.13:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Summary |
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19 Jan 2025, 11:15
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New CVE |
Information
Published : 2025-01-19 11:15
Updated : 2025-10-16 19:17
NVD link : CVE-2025-21643
Mitre link : CVE-2025-21643
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-21643
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE