CVE-2025-68356

gfs2: Prevent recursive memory reclaim

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
Dec 16, 2025

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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.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • dc0b9435238c1a68150c798c9c7a1b5d7414cbb9 to before 66eb53cecc5f83183535bbfb2fa6464322049b61Affected
  • dc0b9435238c1a68150c798c9c7a1b5d7414cbb9 to before edb2b255618621dc83d0ec23150e16b2c697077fAffected
  • dc0b9435238c1a68150c798c9c7a1b5d7414cbb9 to before 9c0960ed112398bdb6c60ccf6e6b583bc59acedeAffected
  • dc0b9435238c1a68150c798c9c7a1b5d7414cbb9 to before 49e7347f4644d031306d56cb4d51e467cbdcbc69Affected
  • dc0b9435238c1a68150c798c9c7a1b5d7414cbb9 to before 2c5f4a53476e3cab70adc77b38942c066bd2c17cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.6Affected
  • before 6.6Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.63 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.17.13 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18.2 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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