CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-39878

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel Ceph, move_dirty_folio_in_page_array() always returns 0 because it NULLs the pointer before returning PTR_ERR(NULL). Errors from fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks() are silently ignored, leaving NULL entries in the page array that may later crash the kernel.

Risk Assessment

May lead to a kernel crash during write operations on a Ceph filesystem with encryption, causing service unavailability and potential data loss.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that calls PTR_ERR() before clearing the pointer in move_dirty_folio_in_page_array().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: fix crash after fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks() error The function move_dirty_folio_in_page_array() was created by commit ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce ceph_process_folio_batch() method") by moving code from ceph_writepages_start() to this function. This new function is supposed to return an error code which is checked by the caller (now ceph_process_folio_batch()), and on error, the caller invokes redirty_page_for_writepage() and then breaks from the loop. However, the refactoring commit has gone wrong, and it by accident, it always returns 0 (= success) because it first NULLs the pointer and then returns PTR_ERR(NULL) which is always 0. This means errors are silently ignored, leaving NULL entries in the page array, which may later crash the kernel. The simple solution is to call PTR_ERR() before clearing the pointer.

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