{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-38496","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2025-04-16T04:51:24.022Z","datePublished":"2025-07-28T11:22:05.091Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:29:08.636Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:29:08.636Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm-bufio: fix sched in atomic context\n\nIf \"try_verify_in_tasklet\" is set for dm-verity, DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP\nis enabled for dm-bufio. However, when bufio tries to evict buffers, there\nis a chance to trigger scheduling in spin_lock_bh, the following warning\nis hit:\n\nBUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/md/dm-bufio.c:2745\nin_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 123, name: kworker/2:2\npreempt_count: 201, expected: 0\nRCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0\n4 locks held by kworker/2:2/123:\n #0: ffff88800a2d1548 ((wq_completion)dm_bufio_cache){....}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0xe46/0x1970\n #1: ffffc90000d97d20 ((work_completion)(&dm_bufio_replacement_work)){....}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x763/0x1970\n #2: ffffffff8555b528 (dm_bufio_clients_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: do_global_cleanup+0x1ce/0x710\n #3: ffff88801d5820b8 (&c->spinlock){....}-{2:2}, at: do_global_cleanup+0x2a5/0x710\nPreemption disabled at:\n[<0000000000000000>] 0x0\nCPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 123 Comm: kworker/2:2 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3-g90548c634bd0 #305 PREEMPT(voluntary)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nWorkqueue: dm_bufio_cache do_global_cleanup\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70\n __might_resched+0x360/0x4e0\n do_global_cleanup+0x2f5/0x710\n process_one_work+0x7db/0x1970\n worker_thread+0x518/0xea0\n kthread+0x359/0x690\n ret_from_fork+0xf3/0x1b0\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n </TASK>\n\nThat can be reproduced by:\n\n  veritysetup format --data-block-size=4096 --hash-block-size=4096 /dev/vda /dev/vdb\n  SIZE=$(blockdev --getsz /dev/vda)\n  dmsetup create myverity -r --table \"0 $SIZE verity 1 /dev/vda /dev/vdb 4096 4096 <data_blocks> 1 sha256 <root_hash> <salt> 1 try_verify_in_tasklet\"\n  mount /dev/dm-0 /mnt -o ro\n  echo 102400 > /sys/module/dm_bufio/parameters/max_cache_size_bytes\n  [read files in /mnt]"}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/md/dm-bufio.c"],"versions":[{"version":"450e8dee51aa6fa1dd0f64073e88235f1a77b035","lessThan":"469a39a33a9934af157299bf11c58f6e6cb53f85","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"450e8dee51aa6fa1dd0f64073e88235f1a77b035","lessThan":"68860d1ade385eef9fcdbf6552f061283091fdb8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"450e8dee51aa6fa1dd0f64073e88235f1a77b035","lessThan":"3edfdb1d4ef81320dae0caa40bc24baf8c1bbb86","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"450e8dee51aa6fa1dd0f64073e88235f1a77b035","lessThan":"b1bf1a782fdf5c482215c0c661b5da98b8e75773","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/md/dm-bufio.c"],"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.6.100","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.12.40","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.15.8","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.16","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.4","versionEndExcluding":"6.6.100"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.4","versionEndExcluding":"6.12.40"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.4","versionEndExcluding":"6.15.8"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.4","versionEndExcluding":"6.16"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/469a39a33a9934af157299bf11c58f6e6cb53f85"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68860d1ade385eef9fcdbf6552f061283091fdb8"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3edfdb1d4ef81320dae0caa40bc24baf8c1bbb86"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1bf1a782fdf5c482215c0c661b5da98b8e75773"}],"title":"dm-bufio: fix sched in atomic context","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}