Bug 2379231 (CVE-2025-38321)

Summary: CVE-2025-38321 kernel: smb: Log an error when close_all_cached_dirs fails
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedKeywords: Security
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: ---
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-10 09:01:32 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: Log an error when close_all_cached_dirs fails

Under low-memory conditions, close_all_cached_dirs() can't move the
dentries to a separate list to dput() them once the locks are dropped.
This will result in a "Dentry still in use" error, so add an error
message that makes it clear this is what happened:

[  495.281119] CIFS: VFS: \\otters.example.com\share Out of memory while dropping dentries
[  495.281595] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  495.281887] BUG: Dentry ffff888115531138{i=78,n=/}  still in use (2) [unmount of cifs cifs]
[  495.282391] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2329 at fs/dcache.c:1536 umount_check+0xc8/0xf0

Also, bail out of looping through all tcons as soon as a single
allocation fails, since we're already in trouble, and kmalloc() attempts
for subseqeuent tcons are likely to fail just like the first one did.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-11 06:32:46 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025071031-CVE-2025-38321-25aa@gregkh/T