CVE-2025-40196

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

fs: quota: create dedicated workqueue for quota_release_work

There is a kernel panic due to WARN_ONCE when panic_on_warn is set.

This issue occurs when writeback is triggered due to sync call for an opened file(ie, writeback reason is WB_REASON_SYNC). When f2fs balance is needed at sync path, flush for quota_release_work is triggered. By default quota_release_work is queued to events_unbound queue which does not have WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag. During f2fs balance writeback workqueue tries to flush quota_release_work causing kernel panic due to MEM_RECLAIM flag mismatch errors.

This patch creates dedicated workqueue with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag for work quota_release_work.

————[ cut here ]———— WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 14867 at kernel/workqueue.c:3721 check_flush_dependency+0x13c/0x148 Call trace: check_flush_dependency+0x13c/0x148 __flush_work+0xd0/0x398 flush_delayed_work+0x44/0x5c dquot_writeback_dquots+0x54/0x318 f2fs_do_quota_sync+0xb8/0x1a8 f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x3cc/0x99c f2fs_gc+0x190/0x750 f2fs_balance_fs+0x110/0x168 f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x474/0x7dc f2fs_write_data_pages+0x7d0/0xd0c do_writepages+0xe0/0x2f4 __writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x4ac writeback_sb_inodes+0x30c/0x538 wb_writeback+0xf4/0x440 wb_workfn+0x128/0x5d4 process_scheduled_works+0x1c4/0x45c worker_thread+0x32c/0x3e8 kthread+0x11c/0x1b0 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel: panic_on_warn set …

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72b7ceca857f38a8ca7c5629feffc63769638974
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a09a62f0c8c6123c2f1864ed6d5f9eb144afaf0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f12039df1515d5daf7d92e586ece5cefeb39561b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f846eacde280ecc3daedfe001580e3033565179e