5.5

CVE-2025-38650

hfsplus: remove mutex_lock check in hfsplus_free_extents

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

hfsplus: remove mutex_lock check in hfsplus_free_extents

Syzbot reported an issue in hfsplus filesystem:

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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4400 at fs/hfsplus/extents.c:346
	hfsplus_free_extents+0x700/0xad0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
hfsplus_file_truncate+0x768/0xbb0 fs/hfsplus/extents.c:606
hfsplus_write_begin+0xc2/0xd0 fs/hfsplus/inode.c:56
cont_expand_zero fs/buffer.c:2383 [inline]
cont_write_begin+0x2cf/0x860 fs/buffer.c:2446
hfsplus_write_begin+0x86/0xd0 fs/hfsplus/inode.c:52
generic_cont_expand_simple+0x151/0x250 fs/buffer.c:2347
hfsplus_setattr+0x168/0x280 fs/hfsplus/inode.c:263
notify_change+0xe38/0x10f0 fs/attr.c:420
do_truncate+0x1fb/0x2e0 fs/open.c:65
do_sys_ftruncate+0x2eb/0x380 fs/open.c:193
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

To avoid deadlock, Commit 31651c607151 ("hfsplus: avoid deadlock
on file truncation") unlock extree before hfsplus_free_extents(),
and add check wheather extree is locked in hfsplus_free_extents().

However, when operations such as hfsplus_file_release,
hfsplus_setattr, hfsplus_unlink, and hfsplus_get_block are executed
concurrently in different files, it is very likely to trigger the
WARN_ON, which will lead syzbot and xfstest to consider it as an
abnormality.

The comment above this warning also describes one of the easy
triggering situations, which can easily trigger and cause
xfstest&syzbot to report errors.

[task A]			[task B]
->hfsplus_file_release
  ->hfsplus_file_truncate
    ->hfs_find_init
      ->mutex_lock
    ->mutex_unlock
				->hfsplus_write_begin
				  ->hfsplus_get_block
				    ->hfsplus_file_extend
				      ->hfsplus_ext_read_extent
				        ->hfs_find_init
					  ->mutex_lock
    ->hfsplus_free_extents
      WARN_ON(mutex_is_locked) !!!

Several threads could try to lock the shared extents tree.
And warning can be triggered in one thread when another thread
has locked the tree. This is the wrong behavior of the code and
we need to remove the warning.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.19 < 5.4.297
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.241
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.190
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.148
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.102
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.42
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.15.10
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.16 < 6.16.1
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CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-667 Improper Locking

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a19ce9230b22a0866313932e7964cf05557a6008
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/084933961ecda7561dedfb78c4676ccb90c91ada
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5055b7db94110f228961dea6b74eed0a93a50b01
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9764b8bb9f5f94df105cd2ac43829dd0d2c82b9f
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/314310166ba1fdff7660dfd9d18ea42d7058f7ae
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcb96956c921f1aae7e7b477f2435c56f77a31b4
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0807e4ac59a546f2346961c5e26a98901594b205
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14922f0cc92e010b160121679c0a6ca072f4e975
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdd6aca652122d6e97787e88d7dd53ddc8b74e7e
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory