Bug 2422685 (CVE-2025-68185) - CVE-2025-68185 kernel: nfs4_setup_readdir(): insufficient locking for ->d_parent->d_inode dereferencing
Summary: CVE-2025-68185 kernel: nfs4_setup_readdir(): insufficient locking for ->d_par...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-68185
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-16 14:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-17 03:08 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-16 14:03:40 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfs4_setup_readdir(): insufficient locking for ->d_parent->d_inode dereferencing

Theoretically it's an oopsable race, but I don't believe one can manage
to hit it on real hardware; might become doable on a KVM, but it still
won't be easy to attack.

Anyway, it's easy to deal with - since xdr_encode_hyper() is just a call of
put_unaligned_be64(), we can put that under ->d_lock and be done with that.


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