{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-21643", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2024-12-29T08:45:45.727Z", "datePublished": "2025-01-19T10:17:59.820Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T21:03:38.878Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T21:03:38.878Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfs: Fix kernel async DIO\n\nNetfslib needs to be able to handle kernel-initiated asynchronous DIO that\nis supplied with a bio_vec[] array. Currently, because of the async flag,\nthis gets passed to netfs_extract_user_iter() which throws a warning and\nfails because it only handles IOVEC and UBUF iterators. This can be\ntriggered through a combination of cifs and a loopback blockdev with\nsomething like:\n\n mount //my/cifs/share /foo\n dd if=/dev/zero of=/foo/m0 bs=4K count=1K\n losetup --sector-size 4096 --direct-io=on /dev/loop2046 /foo/m0\n echo hello >/dev/loop2046\n\nThis causes the following to appear in syslog:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 109 at fs/netfs/iterator.c:50 netfs_extract_user_iter+0x170/0x250 [netfs]\n\nand the write to fail.\n\nFix this by removing the check in netfs_unbuffered_write_iter_locked() that\ncauses async kernel DIO writes to be handled as userspace writes. Note\nthat this change relies on the kernel caller maintaining the existence of\nthe bio_vec array (or kvec[] or folio_queue) until the op is complete." } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/netfs/direct_write.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "153a9961b551101cd38e94e26cd92fbfd198b19b", "lessThan": "9f3a265836844eda30bf34c2584b8011fd4f0f49", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "153a9961b551101cd38e94e26cd92fbfd198b19b", "lessThan": "3f6bc9e3ab9b127171d39f9ac6eca1abb693b731", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/netfs/direct_write.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.8", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.8", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.10", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.13", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.8", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.10" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.8", "versionEndExcluding": "6.13" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f3a265836844eda30bf34c2584b8011fd4f0f49" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f6bc9e3ab9b127171d39f9ac6eca1abb693b731" } ], "title": "netfs: Fix kernel async DIO", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }