vulnerability
Oracle Linux: CVE-2025-40235: ELSA-2026-50006: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Dec 4, 2025 | Jan 15, 2026 | Jan 15, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 4, 2025
Added
Jan 15, 2026
Modified
Jan 15, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: directly free partially initialized fs_info in btrfs_check_leaked_roots()
If fs_info->super_copy or fs_info->super_for_commit allocated failed in
btrfs_get_tree_subvol(), then no need to call btrfs_free_fs_info().
Otherwise btrfs_check_leaked_roots() would access NULL pointer because
fs_info->allocated_roots had not been initialised.
syzkaller reported the following information:
------------[ cut here ]------------
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffbb0
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 64c9067 P4D 64c9067 PUD 64cb067 PMD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1402 Comm: syz.1.35 Not tainted 6.15.8 #4 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), (...)
RIP: 0010:arch_atomic_read arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:23 [inline]
RIP: 0010:raw_atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:457 [inline]
RIP: 0010:atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:33 [inline]
RIP: 0010:refcount_read include/linux/refcount.h:170 [inline]
RIP: 0010:btrfs_check_leaked_roots+0x18f/0x2c0 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1230
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
btrfs_free_fs_info+0x310/0x410 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1280
btrfs_get_tree_subvol+0x592/0x6b0 fs/btrfs/super.c:2029
btrfs_get_tree+0x63/0x80 fs/btrfs/super.c:2097
vfs_get_tree+0x98/0x320 fs/super.c:1759
do_new_mount+0x357/0x660 fs/namespace.c:3899
path_mount+0x716/0x19c0 fs/namespace.c:4226
do_mount fs/namespace.c:4239 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4450 [inline]
__se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4427 [inline]
__x64_sys_mount+0x28c/0x310 fs/namespace.c:4427
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x92/0x180 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7f032eaffa8d
[...]
btrfs: directly free partially initialized fs_info in btrfs_check_leaked_roots()
If fs_info->super_copy or fs_info->super_for_commit allocated failed in
btrfs_get_tree_subvol(), then no need to call btrfs_free_fs_info().
Otherwise btrfs_check_leaked_roots() would access NULL pointer because
fs_info->allocated_roots had not been initialised.
syzkaller reported the following information:
------------[ cut here ]------------
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffbb0
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 64c9067 P4D 64c9067 PUD 64cb067 PMD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1402 Comm: syz.1.35 Not tainted 6.15.8 #4 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), (...)
RIP: 0010:arch_atomic_read arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:23 [inline]
RIP: 0010:raw_atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:457 [inline]
RIP: 0010:atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:33 [inline]
RIP: 0010:refcount_read include/linux/refcount.h:170 [inline]
RIP: 0010:btrfs_check_leaked_roots+0x18f/0x2c0 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1230
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
btrfs_free_fs_info+0x310/0x410 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1280
btrfs_get_tree_subvol+0x592/0x6b0 fs/btrfs/super.c:2029
btrfs_get_tree+0x63/0x80 fs/btrfs/super.c:2097
vfs_get_tree+0x98/0x320 fs/super.c:1759
do_new_mount+0x357/0x660 fs/namespace.c:3899
path_mount+0x716/0x19c0 fs/namespace.c:4226
do_mount fs/namespace.c:4239 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4450 [inline]
__se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4427 [inline]
__x64_sys_mount+0x28c/0x310 fs/namespace.c:4427
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x92/0x180 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7f032eaffa8d
[...]
Solution
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
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