{"id":"CVE-2025-23132","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-23132","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:14:24.384Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: quota: fix to avoid warning in dquot_writeback_dquots() F2FS-fs (dm-59): checkpoint=enable has some unwritten data. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 8013…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: quota: fix to avoid warning in dquot_writeback_dquots()\n\nF2FS-fs (dm-59): checkpoint=enable has some unwritten data.\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 8013 at fs/quota/dquot.c:691 dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308\npc : dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308\nlr : f2fs_quota_sync+0xcc/0x1c4\nCall trace:\ndquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308\nf2fs_quota_sync+0xcc/0x1c4\nf2fs_write_checkpoint+0x3d4/0x9b0\nf2fs_issue_checkpoint+0x1bc/0x2c0\nf2fs_sync_fs+0x54/0x150\nf2fs_do_sync_file+0x2f8/0x814\n__f2fs_ioctl+0x1960/0x3244\nf2fs_ioctl+0x54/0xe0\n__arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xe4\ninvoke_syscall+0x58/0x114\n\ncheckpoint and f2fs_remount may race as below, resulting triggering warning\nin dquot_writeback_dquots().\n\natomic write                                    remount\n                                                - do_remount\n                                                 - down_write(&sb->s_umount);\n                                                  - f2fs_remount\n- ioctl\n - f2fs_do_sync_file\n  - f2fs_sync_fs\n   - f2fs_write_checkpoint\n    - block_operations\n     - locked = down_read_trylock(&sbi->sb->s_umount)\n       : fail to lock due to the write lock was held by remount\n                                                 - up_write(&sb->s_umount);\n     - f2fs_quota_sync\n      - dquot_writeback_dquots\n       - WARN_ON_ONCE(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount))\n       : trigger warning because s_umount lock was unlocked by remount\n\nIf checkpoint comes from mount/umount/remount/freeze/quotactl, caller of\ncheckpoint has already held s_umount lock, calling dquot_writeback_dquots()\nin the context should be safe.\n\nSo let's record task to sbi->umount_lock_holder, so that checkpoint can\nknow whether the lock has held in the context or not by checking current\nw/ it.\n\nIn addition, in order to not misrepresent caller of checkpoint, we should\nnot allow to trigger async checkpoint for those callers: mount/umount/remount/\nfreeze/quotactl.","published":"2025-04-16T15:16:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-21T13:18:05.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00382,"percentile":0.31944,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ec535db9da76dafa05c89f8b58a0b1d7dddba1c","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7acf0a6c87aa282c86a36dbaa2f92fda88c5884","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb85c2410d6f581e957cd03a644ff6ddbe592af9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23132","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}