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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jul 10, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 20, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

fs/dax: Fix "don't skip locked entries when scanning entries"

Commit 6be3e21d25ca ("fs/dax: don't skip locked entries when scanning
entries") introduced a new function, wait_entry_unlocked_exclusive(),
which waits for the current entry to become unlocked without advancing
the XArray iterator state.

Waiting for the entry to become unlocked requires dropping the XArray
lock. This requires calling xas_pause() prior to dropping the lock
which leaves the xas in a suitable state for the next iteration. However
this has the side-effect of advancing the xas state to the next index.
Normally this isn't an issue because xas_for_each() contains code to
detect this state and thus avoid advancing the index a second time on
the next loop iteration.

However both callers of and wait_entry_unlocked_exclusive() itself
subsequently use the xas state to reload the entry. As xas_pause()
updated the state to the next index this will cause the current entry
which is being waited on to be skipped. This caused the following
warning to fire intermittently when running xftest generic/068 on an XFS
filesystem with FS DAX enabled:

[ 35.067397] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 35.068229] WARNING: CPU: 21 PID: 1640 at mm/truncate.c:89 truncate_folio_batch_exceptionals+0xd8/0x1e0
[ 35.069717] Modules linked in: nd_pmem dax_pmem nd_btt nd_e820 libnvdimm
[ 35.071006] CPU: 21 UID: 0 PID: 1640 Comm: fstest Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7+ #77 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 35.072613] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/204
[ 35.074845] RIP: 0010:truncate_folio_batch_exceptionals+0xd8/0x1e0
[ 35.075962] Code: a1 00 00 00 f6 47 0d 20 0f 84 97 00 00 00 4c 63 e8 41 39 c4 7f 0b eb 61 49 83 c5 01 45 39 ec 7e 58 42 f68
[ 35.079522] RSP: 0018:ffffb04e426c7850 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 35.080359] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9d21e3481908 RCX: ffffb04e426c77f4
[ 35.081477] RDX: ffffb04e426c79e8 RSI: ffffb04e426c79e0 RDI: ffff9d21e34816e8
[ 35.082590] RBP: ffffb04e426c79e0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000003
[ 35.083733] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 822b53c0f7a49868 R12: 000000000000001f
[ 35.084850] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffb04e426c78e8 R15: fffffffffffffffe
[ 35.085953] FS: 00007f9134c87740(0000) GS:ffff9d22abba0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 35.087346] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 35.088244] CR2: 00007f9134c86000 CR3: 000000040afff000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[ 35.089354] Call Trace:
[ 35.089749]
[ 35.090168] truncate_inode_pages_range+0xfc/0x4d0
[ 35.091078] truncate_pagecache+0x47/0x60
[ 35.091735] xfs_setattr_size+0xc7/0x3e0
[ 35.092648] xfs_vn_setattr+0x1ea/0x270
[ 35.093437] notify_change+0x1f4/0x510
[ 35.094219] ? do_truncate+0x97/0xe0
[ 35.094879] do_truncate+0x97/0xe0
[ 35.095640] path_openat+0xabd/0xca0
[ 35.096278] do_filp_open+0xd7/0x190
[ 35.096860] do_sys_openat2+0x8a/0xe0
[ 35.097459] __x64_sys_openat+0x6d/0xa0
[ 35.098076] do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x1d0
[ 35.098647] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[ 35.099444] RIP: 0033:0x7f9134d81fc1
[ 35.100033] Code: 75 57 89 f0 25 00 00 41 00 3d 00 00 41 00 74 49 80 3d 2a 26 0e 00 00 74 6d 89 da 48 89 ee bf 9c ff ff ff5
[ 35.102993] RSP: 002b:00007ffcd41e0d10 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
[ 35.104263] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000242 RCX: 00007f9134d81fc1
[ 35.105452] RDX: 0000000000000242 RSI: 00007ffcd41e1200 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
[ 35.106663] RBP: 00007ffcd41e1200 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000064
[ 35.107923] R10: 00000000000001a4 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000066
[ 35.109112] R13: 0000000000100000 R14: 0000000000100000 R15: 0000000000000400
[ 35.110357]
[ 35.110769] irq event stamp: 8415587
[ 35.111486] hardirqs last enabled at (8415599): [] __up_console_se
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 10, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 10, 2025
Last updated Nov 20, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(4th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Locking

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2025-38276

GHSA ID

GHSA-rpxc-pcjp-7jp2

Source code

No known source code

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