CVE-2025-68771

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chainsyzbot reported a kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain() because thecl_next_free_rec field of the allocation chain list (next free slot inthe chain list) is 0, triggring the BUG_ON(!cl->cl_next_free_rec)condition in ocfs2_find_victim_chain() and panicking the kernel.To fix this, an if condition is introduced in ocfs2_claim_suballoc_bits(),just before calling ocfs2_find_victim_chain(), the code block in it beingexecuted when either of the following conditions is true:1. cl_next_free_rec is equal to 0, indicating that there are no freechains in the allocation chain list2. cl_next_free_rec is greater than cl_count (the total number ofchains in the allocation chain list)Either of them being true is indicative of the fact that there are nochains left for usage.This is addressed using ocfs2_error(), which printsthe error log for debugging purposes, rather than panicking the kernel.

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234