CVE-2025-22072

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spufs: fix gang directory lifetimes prior to "[POWERPC] spufs: Fix gang destroy leaks" we used to have a problem with gang lifetimes - creation of a gang returns opened gang directory, which normally gets removed when that gets closed, but if somebody has created a context belonging to that gang and kept it alive until the gang got closed, removal failed and we ended up with a leak. Unfortunately, it had been fixed the wrong way. Dentry of gang directory was no longer pinned, and rmdir on close was gone. One problem was that failure of open kept calling simple_rmdir() as cleanup, which meant an unbalanced dput(). Another bug was in the success case - gang creation incremented link count on root directory, but that was no longer undone when gang got destroyed. Fix consists of * reverting the commit in question * adding a counter to gang, protected by ->i_rwsem of gang directory inode. * having it set to 1 at creation time, dropped in both spufs_dir_close() and spufs_gang_close() and bumped in spufs_create_context(), provided that it's not 0. * using simple_recursive_removal() to take the gang directory out when counter reaches zero.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-12-29 | Published 2025-04-16 | Updated 2026-05-11 | Assigner Linux

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References

lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html

git.kernel.org/...c/880e7b3da2e765c1f90c94c0539be039e96c7062

git.kernel.org/...c/324f280806aab28ef757aecc18df419676c10ef8

git.kernel.org/...c/029d8c711f5e5fe8cf63e8a4a1a140a06e224e45

git.kernel.org/...c/903733782f3ae28a2f7fe4dfb47c7fe3e079a528

git.kernel.org/...c/fc646a6c6d14b5d581f162a7e32999f789e3a3ac

git.kernel.org/...c/c134deabf4784e155d360744d4a6a835b9de4dd4

cve.org (CVE-2025-22072)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-22072)

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