CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-68168
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: fix uninitialized waitqueue in transaction manager
The transaction manager initialization in txInit() was not properly
initializing TxBlock[0].waitor waitqueue, causing a crash when
txEnd(0) is called on read-only filesystems.
When a filesystem is mounted read-only, txBegin() returns tid=0 to
indicate no transaction. However, txEnd(0) still gets called and
tries to access TxBlock[0].waitor via tid_to_tblock(0), but this
waitqueue was never initialized because the initialization loop
started at index 1 instead of 0.
This causes a 'non-static key' lockdep warning and system crash:
INFO: trying to register non-static key in txEnd
Fix by ensuring all transaction blocks including TxBlock[0] have
their waitqueues properly initialized during txInit().
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/038861414ab383b41dd35abbf9ff0ef715592d53 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a9575a372182ca075070b3cd77490dcf0c951e7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/300b072df72694ea330c4c673c035253e07827b8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cae9cf23e0bd424ac904e753639a587543ce03a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2aa97cde9857f881920635a2e3d3b11769619c5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbf2f527ae4ca7c7dabce42e85e8deb58588a37e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2dd7ca05a11685c314e62802a55e8d67a90e974 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6af7fce2e162ac68e85d3a11eb6ac8c35b24b64 git.kernel.org