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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: loop: Avoid updating block size under exclusive owner Syzbot came up with a reproducer where a loop device block size is changed underneath a mounted filesystem. This causes a mismatch between the block device block size and the block size stored in the superblock causing confusion in various places such as fs/buffer.c. The particular issue triggered by syzbot was a warning in __getblk_slow() due to requested buffer size not matching block device block size. Fix the problem by getting exclusive hold of the loop device to change its block size. This fails if somebody (such as filesystem) has already an exclusive ownership of the block device and thus prevents modifying the loop device under some exclusive owner which doesn't expect it.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-09-04 | Updated 2025-10-02 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 457d2c5e112fd08dc1039b1ae39a83ec1782360d
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 139a000d20f2f38ce34296feddd641d730fe1c08
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before b928438cc87c0bf7ae078e4b7b6e14261e84c5c5
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 5d67b30aefeb7a949040bbb1b4e3b84c5d29a624
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 7e49538288e523427beedd26993d446afef1a6fb
affected

Default status
affected

6.6.109 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.43 (semver)
unaffected

6.15.11 (semver)
unaffected

6.16.2 (semver)
unaffected

6.17 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/457d2c5e112fd08dc1039b1ae39a83ec1782360d

git.kernel.org/...c/139a000d20f2f38ce34296feddd641d730fe1c08

git.kernel.org/...c/b928438cc87c0bf7ae078e4b7b6e14261e84c5c5

git.kernel.org/...c/5d67b30aefeb7a949040bbb1b4e3b84c5d29a624

git.kernel.org/...c/7e49538288e523427beedd26993d446afef1a6fb

cve.org (CVE-2025-38709)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-38709)

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