CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21908
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-667
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFS: fix nfs_release_folio() to not deadlock via kcompactd writeback
Add PF_KCOMPACTD flag and current_is_kcompactd() helper to check for it so
nfs_release_folio() can skip calling nfs_wb_folio() from kcompactd.
Otherwise NFS can deadlock waiting for kcompactd enduced writeback which
recurses back to NFS (which triggers writeback to NFSD via NFS loopback
mount on the same host, NFSD blocks waiting for XFS's call to
__filemap_get_folio):
6070.550357] INFO: task kcompactd0:58 blocked for more than 4435 seconds.
{---
[58] "kcompactd0"
[<0>] folio_wait_bit+0xe8/0x200
[<0>] folio_wait_writeback+0x2b/0x80
[<0>] nfs_wb_folio+0x80/0x1b0 [nfs]
[<0>] nfs_release_folio+0x68/0x130 [nfs]
[<0>] split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x362/0x840
[<0>] migrate_pages_batch+0x43d/0xb90
[<0>] migrate_pages_sync+0x9a/0x240
[<0>] migrate_pages+0x93c/0x9f0
[<0>] compact_zone+0x8e2/0x1030
[<0>] compact_node+0xdb/0x120
[<0>] kcompactd+0x121/0x2e0
[<0>] kthread+0xcf/0x100
[<0>] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40
[<0>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
---}
[[email protected]: fix build]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.3 < 6.6.83)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ae31c54cff745832b9bd5b32e71f3d1b607cd1e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8253ff29edcb429a9a6c75710941c6a16a9a34b1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab0727d6e2196682351c25c1dd112136f6991f11 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce6d9c1c2b5cc785016faa11b48b6cd317eb367e Patch