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Linux Linux — netfs: Fix oops in write-retry from mis-resetting the subreq iterator
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U H N H 7.1 .0038 30.9 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux cd0277ed0c188dd40e7744e89299af7b78831ca4 – —
Linux 6.12 – 6.12.37
TIMELINE
Apr 16 Reserved by Linux
Jul 3 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-38139 (Linux). CVSS 9.8 → 7.1 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfs: Fix oops in write-retry from mis-resetting the subreq iterator
Fix the resetting of the subrequest iterator in netfs_retry_write_stream()
to use the iterator-reset function as the iterator may have been shortened
by a previous retry. In such a case, the amount of data to be written by
the subrequest is not "subreq->len" but "subreq->len -
subreq->transferred".
Without this, KASAN may see an error in iov_iter_revert():
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iov_iter_revert lib/iov_iter.c:633 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iov_iter_revert+0x443/0x5a0 lib/iov_iter.c:611
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802912a0b8 by task kworker/u32:7/1147
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1147 Comm: kworker/u32:7 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc6-syzkaller-00052-g9f35e33144ae #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events_unbound netfs_write_collection_worker
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]
print_report+0xc3/0x670 mm/kasan/report.c:521
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634
iov_iter_revert lib/iov_iter.c:633 [inline]
iov_iter_revert+0x443/0x5a0 lib/iov_iter.c:611
netfs_retry_write_stream fs/netfs/write_retry.c:44 [inline]
netfs_retry_writes+0x166d/0x1a50 fs/netfs/write_retry.c:231
netfs_collect_write_results fs/netfs/write_collect.c:352 [inline]
netfs_write_collection_worker+0x23fd/0x3830 fs/netfs/write_collect.c:374
process_one_work+0x9cf/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3238
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline]
worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
kthread+0x3c2/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:464
ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| April 16, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| July 3, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-38139 (Linux). CVSS 9.8 → 7.1 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | cd0277ed0c188dd40e7744e89299af7b78831ca4 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.12 | 6.12.37 |
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