CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-68168

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the JFS filesystem transaction manager in the Linux kernel, an uninitialized waitqueue was found. This causes a system crash when unmounting a read-only mounted filesystem.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability can lead to a denial of service (DoS) when working with JFS filesystems mounted in read-only mode.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2025-68168.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: fix uninitialized waitqueue in transaction manager The transaction manager initialization in txInit() was not properly initializing TxBlock[0].waitor waitqueue, causing a crash when txEnd(0) is called on read-only filesystems. When a filesystem is mounted read-only, txBegin() returns tid=0 to indicate no transaction. However, txEnd(0) still gets called and tries to access TxBlock[0].waitor via tid_to_tblock(0), but this waitqueue was never initialized because the initialization loop started at index 1 instead of 0. This causes a 'non-static key' lockdep warning and system crash: INFO: trying to register non-static key in txEnd Fix by ensuring all transaction blocks including TxBlock[0] have their waitqueues properly initialized during txInit().

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