Vulnerability · Published Apr 16, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2025-23132f2fs: quota: fix to avoid warning in dquot_writeback_dquots()

High 7.0

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 32% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.0High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 67.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: quota: fix to avoid warning in dquot_writeback_dquots() F2FS-fs (dm-59): checkpoint=enable has some unwritten data. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 8013 at fs/quota/dquot.c:691 dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308 pc : dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308 lr : f2fs_quota_sync+0xcc/0x1c4 Call trace: dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308 f2fs_quota_sync+0xcc/0x1c4 f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x3d4/0x9b0 f2fs_issue_checkpoint+0x1bc/0x2c0 f2fs_sync_fs+0x54/0x150 f2fs_do_sync_file+0x2f8/0x814 __f2fs_ioctl+0x1960/0x3244 f2fs_ioctl+0x54/0xe0 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xe4 invoke_syscall+0x58/0x114 checkpoint and f2fs_remount may race as below, resulting triggering warning in dquot_writeback_dquots(). atomic write remount - do_remount - down_write(&sb->s_umount); - f2fs_remount - ioctl - f2fs_do_sync_file - f2fs_sync_fs - f2fs_write_checkpoint - block_operations - locked = down_read_trylock(&sbi->sb->s_umount) : fail to lock due to the write lock was held by remount - up_write(&sb->s_umount); - f2fs_quota_sync - dquot_writeback_dquots - WARN_ON_ONCE(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount)) : trigger warning because s_umount lock was unlocked by remount If checkpoint comes from mount/umount/remount/freeze/quotactl, caller of checkpoint has already held s_umount lock, calling dquot_writeback_dquots() in the context should be safe. So let's record task to sbi->umount_lock_holder, so that checkpoint can know whether the lock has held in the context or not by checking current w/ it. In addition, in order to not misrepresent caller of checkpoint, we should not allow to trigger async checkpoint for those callers: mount/umount/remount/ freeze/quotactl.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linuxno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-23132
Debian:13linux6.12.115-2DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23132
Debian:14linux6.16.3-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinuxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinuxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-awsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-awsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azureno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azureno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:25.10linux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeopno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeopno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-intelno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotgno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatencyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatencyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatencyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegrano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1035.38USN-8781-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1035.38UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracleno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracleno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspino fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspino fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-vmwareno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux af033b2aa8a874fd5737fafe90d159136527b5b4 – before 9ec535db9da76dafa05c89f8b58a0b1d7dddba1caf033b2aa8a874fd5737fafe90d159136527b5b4 – before d7acf0a6c87aa282c86a36dbaa2f92fda88c5884af033b2aa8a874fd5737fafe90d159136527b5b4 – before eb85c2410d6f581e957cd03a644ff6ddbe592af9
Linux Linux 4.20

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