{"id":"CVE-2025-40196","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-40196","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:33:56.975Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: quota: create dedicated workqueue for quota_release_work There is a kernel panic due to WARN_ONCE when panic_on_warn is set.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs: quota: create dedicated workqueue for quota_release_work\n\nThere is a kernel panic due to WARN_ONCE when panic_on_warn is set.\n\nThis issue occurs when writeback is triggered due to sync call for an\nopened file(ie, writeback reason is WB_REASON_SYNC). When f2fs balance\nis needed at sync path, flush for quota_release_work is triggered.\nBy default quota_release_work is queued to \"events_unbound\" queue which\ndoes not have WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag. During f2fs balance \"writeback\"\nworkqueue tries to flush quota_release_work causing kernel panic due to\nMEM_RECLAIM flag mismatch errors.\n\nThis patch creates dedicated workqueue with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag\nfor work quota_release_work.\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 14867 at kernel/workqueue.c:3721 check_flush_dependency+0x13c/0x148\nCall trace:\n check_flush_dependency+0x13c/0x148\n __flush_work+0xd0/0x398\n flush_delayed_work+0x44/0x5c\n dquot_writeback_dquots+0x54/0x318\n f2fs_do_quota_sync+0xb8/0x1a8\n f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x3cc/0x99c\n f2fs_gc+0x190/0x750\n f2fs_balance_fs+0x110/0x168\n f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x474/0x7dc\n f2fs_write_data_pages+0x7d0/0xd0c\n do_writepages+0xe0/0x2f4\n __writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x4ac\n writeback_sb_inodes+0x30c/0x538\n wb_writeback+0xf4/0x440\n wb_workfn+0x128/0x5d4\n process_scheduled_works+0x1c4/0x45c\n worker_thread+0x32c/0x3e8\n kthread+0x11c/0x1b0\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\nKernel panic - not syncing: kernel: panic_on_warn set ...","published":"2025-11-12T22:15:47.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T21:10:00.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":null,"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00206,"percentile":0.10657,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"unknown","text":"Not yet scored. NVD analysis is pending; check back once CVSS and EPSS values are published."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72b7ceca857f38a8ca7c5629feffc63769638974","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a09a62f0c8c6123c2f1864ed6d5f9eb144afaf0","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8df2eedd371a1c24ecc4283581299d7737dfcd06","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f12039df1515d5daf7d92e586ece5cefeb39561b","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f846eacde280ecc3daedfe001580e3033565179e","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40196","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."}