CVE-2025-68771

ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jan 13, 2026
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

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

ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain

syzbot reported a kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain() because the `cl_next_free_rec` field of the allocation chain list (next free slot in the chain list) is 0, triggring the BUG_ON(!cl->cl_next_free_rec) condition in ocfs2_find_victim_chain() and panicking the kernel.

To fix this, an if condition is introduced in ocfs2_claim_suballoc_bits(), just before calling ocfs2_find_victim_chain(), the code block in it being executed when either of the following conditions is true:

1. `cl_next_free_rec` is equal to 0, indicating that there are no free chains in the allocation chain list 2. `cl_next_free_rec` is greater than `cl_count` (the total number of chains in the allocation chain list)

Either of them being true is indicative of the fact that there are no chains left for usage.

This is addressed using ocfs2_error(), which prints the error log for debugging purposes, rather than panicking the kernel.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before 1f77e5cd563e6387fdf3bb714fcda36cd88ac5e7Affected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before d0fd1f732ea8063cecd07a3879b7d815c7ee71edAffected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before b08a33d5f80efe6979a6e8f905c1a898910c21ddAffected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before 96f1b074c98c20f55a3b23d2ab44d9fb0f619869Affected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before e24aedae71652d4119049f1fbef6532ccbe3966dAffected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before 7acc0390e0dd7474c4451d05465a677d55ad4268Affected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before 039bef30e320827bac8990c9f29d2a68cd8adb5fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.16Affected
  • before 2.6.16Not affected
  • 5.10.248 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.198 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.160 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.120 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.64 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.3 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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