CVE-2025-38710

gfs2: Validate i_depth for exhash directories

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 4, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

gfs2: Validate i_depth for exhash directories

A fuzzer test introduced corruption that ends up with a depth of 0 in dir_e_read(), causing an undefined shift by 32 at:

index = hash >> (32 - dip->i_depth);

As calculated in an open-coded way in dir_make_exhash(), the minimum depth for an exhash directory is ilog2(sdp->sd_hash_ptrs) and 0 is invalid as sdp->sd_hash_ptrs is fixed as sdp->bsize / 16 at mount time.

So we can avoid the undefined behaviour by checking for depth values lower than the minimum in gfs2_dinode_in(). Values greater than the maximum are already being checked for there.

Also switch the calculation in dir_make_exhash() to use ilog2() to clarify how the depth is calculated.

Tested with the syzkaller repro.c and xfstests '-g quick'.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 9a0045088d888c9c539c8c626a366cb52c0fbdab to before 076e992752e4b24178918f748d75597c80a408d2Affected
  • 9a0045088d888c9c539c8c626a366cb52c0fbdab to before 366183911b153e9b8cf758e1414e1154d7569337Affected
  • 9a0045088d888c9c539c8c626a366cb52c0fbdab to before 112bb60cd0e254a369e95aa9941a694ffeca089fAffected
  • 9a0045088d888c9c539c8c626a366cb52c0fbdab to before cddea0c721106ea480371412d8de21705eb27376Affected
  • 9a0045088d888c9c539c8c626a366cb52c0fbdab to before 53a0249d68a210c16e961b83adfa82f94ee0a53dAffected
  • 9a0045088d888c9c539c8c626a366cb52c0fbdab to before b5f46951e62377b6e406fadc18bc3c5bdf1632a7Affected
  • 9a0045088d888c9c539c8c626a366cb52c0fbdab to before 9680c58675b82348ab84d387e4fa727f7587e1a0Affected
  • 9a0045088d888c9c539c8c626a366cb52c0fbdab to before 557c024ca7250bb65ae60f16c02074106c2f197bAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.26Affected
  • before 2.6.26Not affected
  • 5.10.258 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.209 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.175 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.134 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.43 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.15.11 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16.2 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

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