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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-38221

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 7/04/2025 10:15:30 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added 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.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28b62cb58fd014338f5004170f2e3a35bf0af238
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5e58bcd79625423487fa3ecba8e8411b5396327