nfs4_setup_readdir(): insufficient locking for ->d_parent->d_inode dereferencing
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfs4_setup_readdir(): insufficient locking for ->d_parent->d_inode dereferencing Theoretically it's an oopsable race, but I don't believe one can manage to hit it on real hardware; might become doable on a KVM, but it still won't be easy to attack. Anyway, it's easy to deal with - since xdr_encode_hyper() is just a call of put_unaligned_be64(), we can put that under ->d_lock and be done with that.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
1964 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfs4_setup_readdir(): insufficient locking for ->d_parent->d_inode dereferencing Theoretically it's an oopsable race, but I don't believe one can manage to hit it on real hardware; might become doable on a KVM, but it still won't be easy to attack. Anyway, it's easy to deal with - since xdr_encode_hyper() is just a call of put_unaligned_be64(), we can put that under ->d_lock and be done with that.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40be5b9080114f18b0cea386db415b68a7273c1a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/504b3fb9948a9e96ebbabdee0d33966a8bab15cb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6025f641a0e30afdc5aa62017397b1860ad9f677
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a890a2e339b929dbd843328f9a92a1625404fe63
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6cafe71eb3b5579b245ba1bd528a181e77f3df1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eacfd08b26a062f1095b18719715bc82ad35312e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5e570eaab36a110c6ffda32b87c51170990c2d1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa4daf7d11e45b72aad5d943a7ab991f869fff79
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/68xxx/CVE-2025-68185.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68185