Description

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

ext4: goto right label 'out_mmap_sem' in ext4_setattr()

Otherwise, if ext4_inode_attach_jinode() fails, a hung task will
happen because filemap_invalidate_unlock() isn't called to unlock
mapping->invalidate_lock. Like this:

EXT4-fs error (device sda) in ext4_setattr:5557: Out of memory
INFO: task fsstress:374 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-next-20250206-xfstests-dirty #726
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:fsstress state:D stack:0 pid:374 tgid:374 ppid:373
task_flags:0x440140 flags:0x00000000
Call Trace:

__schedule+0x2c9/0x7f0
schedule+0x27/0xa0
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30
rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x278/0x4c0
down_read+0x59/0xb0
page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x65/0x1b0
filemap_get_pages+0x124/0x3e0
filemap_read+0x114/0x3d0
vfs_read+0x297/0x360
ksys_read+0x6c/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-22120

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 3.27% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22120
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32d872e3905746ff1048078256cb00f946b97d8a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e91ae31e2d264155dfd102101afc2de7bd74a64

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