In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: Fix potential block overflow that cause system hang
When a user executes the FITRIM command, an underflow can occur when
calculating nblocks if end_block is too small. Since nblocks is of
type sector_t, which is u64, a negative nblocks value will become a
very large positive integer. This ultimately leads to the block layer
function __blkdev_issue_discard() taking an excessively long time to
process the bio chain, and the ns_segctor_sem lock remains held for a
long period. This prevents other tasks from acquiring the ns_segctor_sem
lock, resulting in the hang reported by syzbot in [1].
If the ending block is too small, typically if it is smaller than 4KiB
range, depending on the usage of the segment 0, it may be possible to
attempt a discard request beyond the device size causing the hang.
Exiting successfully and assign the discarded size (0 in this case)
to range->len.
Although the start and len values in the user input range are too small,
a conservative strategy is adopted here to safely ignore them, which is
equivalent to a no-op; it will not perform any trimming and will not
throw an error.
[1]
task:segctord state:D stack:28968 pid:6093 tgid:6093 ppid:2 task_flags:0x200040 flags:0x00080000
Call Trace:
rwbase_write_lock+0x3dd/0x750 kernel/locking/rwbase_rt.c:272
nilfs_transaction_lock+0x253/0x4c0 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:357
nilfs_segctor_thread_construct fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2569 [inline]
nilfs_segctor_thread+0x6ec/0xe00 fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2684
[ryusuke: corrected part of the commit message about the consequences]
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18 Mar 2026, 14:58
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5 |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2438982f635e6cc2009be68ba2efb2998727d8d4 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aa45f841413cca81882602b4042c53502f34cad - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6457d3ee41a4c15082ac49c5aa7fb933b4a043f3 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8c5ee234bd54f1447c846101fdaef2cf70c2149 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba18e5f22f26aa4ef78bc3e81f639d1d4f3845e6 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df1e20796c9f3d541cca47fb72e4369ea135642d - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea2278657ad0d62596589fbe2caf995e189e65e7 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed527ef0c264e4bed6c7b2a158ddf516b17f5f66 - Patch | |
| First Time |
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Linux linux Kernel |
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| CWE | NVD-CWE-noinfo |
23 Feb 2026, 04:16
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Information
Published : 2026-02-18 16:22
Updated : 2026-03-18 14:58
NVD link : CVE-2025-71237
Mitre link : CVE-2025-71237
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-71237
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
