Bug 2393213 (CVE-2025-38710) - CVE-2025-38710 kernel: gfs2: Validate i_depth for exhash directories
Summary: CVE-2025-38710 kernel: gfs2: Validate i_depth for exhash directories
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38710
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-04 16:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-04 16:54 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-04 16:05:33 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gfs2: Validate i_depth for exhash directories

A fuzzer test introduced corruption that ends up with a depth of 0 in
dir_e_read(), causing an undefined shift by 32 at:

  index = hash >> (32 - dip->i_depth);

As calculated in an open-coded way in dir_make_exhash(), the minimum
depth for an exhash directory is ilog2(sdp->sd_hash_ptrs) and 0 is
invalid as sdp->sd_hash_ptrs is fixed as sdp->bsize / 16 at mount time.

So we can avoid the undefined behaviour by checking for depth values
lower than the minimum in gfs2_dinode_in(). Values greater than the
maximum are already being checked for there.

Also switch the calculation in dir_make_exhash() to use ilog2() to
clarify how the depth is calculated.

Tested with the syzkaller repro.c and xfstests '-g quick'.


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