{"id":"AZL-72838","summary":"CVE-2025-38347 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.200.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to do sanity check on ino and xnid\n\nsyzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:\n\nINFO: task syz-executor140:5308 blocked for more than 143 seconds.\n      Not tainted 6.14.0-rc7-syzkaller-00069-g81e4f8d68c66 #0\n\"echo 0 \u003e /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\ntask:syz-executor140 state:D stack:24016 pid:5308  tgid:5308  ppid:5306   task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00000006\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5378 [inline]\n __schedule+0x190e/0x4c90 kernel/sched/core.c:6765\n __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6842 [inline]\n schedule+0x14b/0x320 kernel/sched/core.c:6857\n io_schedule+0x8d/0x110 kernel/sched/core.c:7690\n folio_wait_bit_common+0x839/0xee0 mm/filemap.c:1317\n __folio_lock mm/filemap.c:1664 [inline]\n folio_lock include/linux/pagemap.h:1163 [inline]\n __filemap_get_folio+0x147/0xb40 mm/filemap.c:1917\n pagecache_get_page+0x2c/0x130 mm/folio-compat.c:87\n find_get_page_flags include/linux/pagemap.h:842 [inline]\n f2fs_grab_cache_page+0x2b/0x320 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2776\n __get_node_page+0x131/0x11b0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1463\n read_xattr_block+0xfb/0x190 fs/f2fs/xattr.c:306\n lookup_all_xattrs fs/f2fs/xattr.c:355 [inline]\n f2fs_getxattr+0x676/0xf70 fs/f2fs/xattr.c:533\n __f2fs_get_acl+0x52/0x870 fs/f2fs/acl.c:179\n f2fs_acl_create fs/f2fs/acl.c:375 [inline]\n f2fs_init_acl+0xd7/0x9b0 fs/f2fs/acl.c:418\n f2fs_init_inode_metadata+0xa0f/0x1050 fs/f2fs/dir.c:539\n f2fs_add_inline_entry+0x448/0x860 fs/f2fs/inline.c:666\n f2fs_add_dentry+0xba/0x1e0 fs/f2fs/dir.c:765\n f2fs_do_add_link+0x28c/0x3a0 fs/f2fs/dir.c:808\n f2fs_add_link fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:3616 [inline]\n f2fs_mknod+0x2e8/0x5b0 fs/f2fs/namei.c:766\n vfs_mknod+0x36d/0x3b0 fs/namei.c:4191\n unix_bind_bsd net/unix/af_unix.c:1286 [inline]\n unix_bind+0x563/0xe30 net/unix/af_unix.c:1379\n __sys_bind_socket net/socket.c:1817 [inline]\n __sys_bind+0x1e4/0x290 net/socket.c:1848\n __do_sys_bind net/socket.c:1853 [inline]\n __se_sys_bind net/socket.c:1851 [inline]\n __x64_sys_bind+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1851\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nLet's dump and check metadata of corrupted inode, it shows its xattr_nid\nis the same to its i_ino.\n\ndump.f2fs -i 3 chaseyu.img.raw\ni_xattr_nid                             [0x       3 : 3]\n\nSo that, during mknod in the corrupted directory, it tries to get and\nlock inode page twice, result in deadlock.\n\n- f2fs_mknod\n - f2fs_add_inline_entry\n  - f2fs_get_inode_page --- lock dir's inode page\n   - f2fs_init_acl\n    - f2fs_acl_create(dir,..)\n     - __f2fs_get_acl\n      - f2fs_getxattr\n       - lookup_all_xattrs\n        - __get_node_page --- try to lock dir's inode page\n\nIn order to fix this, let's add sanity check on ino and xnid.","modified":"2026-04-01T05:22:35.342621Z","published":"2025-07-10T09:15:29Z","upstream":["CVE-2025-38347"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38347"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:2","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.15.200.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-72838.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}