CVE-2025-68337

CVE-2025-68337

High · published December 22, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

jbd2: avoid bug_on in jbd2_journal_get_create_access() when file system corrupted

There's issue when file system corrupted:

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kernel BUG at fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1289!

Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI

CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 2031 Comm: mkdir Not tainted 6.18.0-rc1-next

RIP: 0010:jbd2_journal_get_create_access+0x3b6/0x4d0

RSP: 0018:ffff888117aafa30 EFLAGS: 00010202

RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88811a86b000 RCX: ffffffff89a63534

RDX: 1ffff110200ec602 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff888100763010

RBP: ffff888100763000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff888100763028

R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000

R13: ffff88812c432000 R14: ffff88812c608000 R15: ffff888120bfc000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 00007f91d6970c99 CR3: 00000001159c4000 CR4: 00000000000006f0

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__ext4_journal_get_create_access+0x42/0x170

ext4_getblk+0x319/0x6f0

ext4_bread+0x11/0x100

ext4_append+0x1e6/0x4a0

ext4_init_new_dir+0x145/0x1d0

ext4_mkdir+0x326/0x920

vfs_mkdir+0x45c/0x740

do_mkdirat+0x234/0x2f0

__x64_sys_mkdir+0xd6/0x120

do_syscall_64+0x5f/0xfa0

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

The above issue occurs with us in errors=continue mode when accompanied by

storage failures. There have been many inconsistencies in the file system

data.

In the case of file system data inconsistency, for example, if the block

bitmap of a referenced block is not set, it can lead to the situation where

a block being committed is allocated and used again. As a result, the

following condition will not be satisfied then trigger BUG_ON. Of course,

it is entirely possible to construct a problematic image that can trigger

this BUG_ON through specific operations. In fact, I have constructed such

an image and easily reproduced this issue.

Therefore, J_ASSERT() holds true only under ideal conditions, but it may

not necessarily be satisfied in exceptional scenarios. Using J_ASSERT()

directly in abnormal situations would cause the system to crash, which is

clearly not what we want. So here we directly trigger a JBD abort instead

of immediately invoking BUG_ON.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00552 · 45.4th percentile
Published
2025-12-22T22:16Z
References (10)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 DEC 16:14Z
    jbd2: avoid bug_on in jbd2_journal_get_create_access() when file system corrupted
    cvelistv5