CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-68356
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gfs2: Prevent recursive memory reclaim
Function new_inode() returns a new inode with inode->i_mapping->gfp_mask
set to GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE. This value includes the __GFP_FS flag, so
allocations in that address space can recurse into filesystem memory
reclaim. We don't want that to happen because it can consume a
significant amount of stack memory.
Worse than that is that it can also deadlock: for example, in several
places, gfs2_unstuff_dinode() is called inside filesystem transactions.
This calls filemap_grab_folio(), which can allocate a new folio, which
can trigger memory reclaim. If memory reclaim recurses into the
filesystem and starts another transaction, a deadlock will ensue.
To fix these kinds of problems, prevent memory reclaim from recursing
into filesystem code by making sure that the gfp_mask of inode address
spaces doesn't include __GFP_FS.
The "meta" and resource group address spaces were already using GFP_NOFS
as their gfp_mask (which doesn't include __GFP_FS). The default value
of GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE is less restrictive than GFP_NOFS, though. To
avoid being overly limiting, use the default value and only knock off
the __GFP_FS flag. I'm not sure if this will actually make a
difference, but it also shouldn't hurt.
This patch is loosely based on commit ad22c7a043c2 ("xfs: prevent stack
overflows from page cache allocation").
Fixes xfstest generic/273.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c5f4a53476e3cab70adc77b38942c066bd2c17c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49e7347f4644d031306d56cb4d51e467cbdcbc69 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66eb53cecc5f83183535bbfb2fa6464322049b61 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c0960ed112398bdb6c60ccf6e6b583bc59acede git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edb2b255618621dc83d0ec23150e16b2c697077f git.kernel.org