vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-38393: kernel: NFSv4/pNFS: Fix a race to wake on NFS_LAYOUT_DRAIN

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 25, 2025
Added
Jul 31, 2025
Modified
Jul 31, 2025

Description

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

NFSv4/pNFS: Fix a race to wake on NFS_LAYOUT_DRAIN

We found a few different systems hung up in writeback waiting on the same
page lock, and one task waiting on the NFS_LAYOUT_DRAIN bit in
pnfs_update_layout(), however the pnfs_layout_hdr's plh_outstanding count
was zero.

It seems most likely that this is another race between the waiter and waker
similar to commit ed0172af5d6f ("SUNRPC: Fix a race to wake a sync task").
Fix it up by applying the advised barrier.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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