CVE-2025-21672

EUVD-2025-2621
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

afs: Fix merge preference rule failure condition

syzbot reported a lock held when returning to userspace[1].  This is
because if argc is less than 0 and the function returns directly, the held
inode lock is not released.

Fix this by store the error in ret and jump to done to clean up instead of
returning directly.

[dh: Modified Lizhi Xu's original patch to make it honour the error code
from afs_split_string()]

[1]
WARNING: lock held when returning to user space!
6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00209-g499551201b5f #0 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------
syz-executor133/5823 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
1 lock held by syz-executor133/5823:
 #0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:818 [inline]
 #0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: afs_proc_addr_prefs_write+0x2bb/0x14e0 fs/afs/addr_prefs.c:388
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 1%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
𝑥
< 6.12.11
linuxlinux_kernel
6.13:rc1
linuxlinux_kernel
6.13:rc2
linuxlinux_kernel
6.13:rc3
linuxlinux_kernel
6.13:rc4
linuxlinux_kernel
6.13:rc5
linuxlinux_kernel
6.13:rc6
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
Debian logo
Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
linux
bookworm
6.1.170-3
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.174-1
fixed
bullseye
5.10.223-1
fixed
bullseye (security)
5.10.257-1
fixed
forky
7.0.9-1
fixed
sid
7.0.10-1
fixed
trixie
6.12.86-1
fixed
trixie (security)
6.12.90-2
fixed
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Releases
Red Hat Product
Release
kernel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-devel-matched
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-64k-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-abi-stablelists
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-devel-matched
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-debug-uki-virt
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-devel-matched
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-doc
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-rt-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-tools
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-tools-libs
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-tools-libs-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-uki-virt
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-uki-virt-addons
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-devel
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-modules
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
libperf
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
perf
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
python3-perf
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
rtla
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed
rv
RHEL 9
0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
fixed