CVE-2025-38223
kernel: ceph: avoid kernel BUG for encrypted inode with unaligned file size
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
Review impact separately from score.
Published · July 4, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: avoid kernel BUG for encrypted inode with unaligned file size
The generic/397 test hits a BUG_ON for the case of encrypted inode with unaligned file size (for example, 33K or 1K):
[ 877.737811] run fstests generic/397 at 2025-01-03 12:34:40 [ 877.875761] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 877.876130] libceph: client4614 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 877.991965] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 877.992334] libceph: client4617 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.017234] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.017594] libceph: client4620 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.031394] xfs_io (pid 18988) is setting deprecated v1 encryption policy; recommend upgrading to v2. [ 878.054528] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.054892] libceph: client4623 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.070287] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.070704] libceph: client4626 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.264586] libceph: mon0 (2)127.0.0.1:40674 session established [ 878.265258] libceph: client4629 fsid 19b90bca-f1ae-47a6-93dd-0b03ee637949 [ 878.374578] -----------[ cut here ]------------ [ 878.374586] kernel BUG at net/ceph/messenger.c:1070! [ 878.375150] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 878.378145] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 4759 Comm: kworker/2:9 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5+ #1 [ 878.378969] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 878.380167] Workqueue: ceph-msgr ceph_con_workfn [ 878.381639] RIP: 0010:ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.382152] Code: 89 17 48 8b 46 70 55 48 89 47 08 c7 47 18 00 00 00 00 48 89 e5 e8 de cc ff ff 5d 31 c0 31 d2 31 f6 31 ff c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 0b <0f> 0b 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 [ 878.383928] RSP: 0018:ffffb4ffc7cbbd28 EFLAGS: 00010287 [ 878.384447] RAX: ffffffff82bb9ac0 RBX: ffff981390c2f1f8 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 878.385129] RDX: 0000000000009000 RSI: ffff981288232b58 RDI: ffff981390c2f378 [ 878.385839] RBP: ffffb4ffc7cbbe18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 878.386539] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff981390c2f030 [ 878.387203] R13: ffff981288232b58 R14: 0000000000000029 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 878.387877] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9814b7900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 878.388663] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 878.389212] CR2: 00005e106a0554e0 CR3: 0000000112bf0001 CR4: 0000000000772ef0 [ 878.389921] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 878.390620] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 878.391307] PKRU: 55555554 [ 878.391567] Call Trace: [ 878.391807] <TASK> [ 878.392021] ? show_regs+0x71/0x90 [ 878.392391] ? die+0x38/0xa0 [ 878.392667] ? do_trap+0xdb/0x100 [ 878.392981] ? do_error_trap+0x75/0xb0 [ 878.393372] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.393842] ? exc_invalid_op+0x53/0x80 [ 878.394232] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.394694] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20 [ 878.395099] ? ceph_msg_data_cursor_init+0x42/0x50 [ 878.395583] ? ceph_con_v2_try_read+0xd16/0x2220 [ 878.396027] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x40 [ 878.396428] ? raw_spin_rq_unlock+0x10/0x40 [ 878.396842] ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x97/0x310 [ 878.397338] ? __schedule+0x44b/0x16b0 [ 878.397738] ceph_con_workfn+0x326/0x750 [ 878.398121] process_one_work+0x188/0x3d0 [ 878.398522] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.398929] worker_thread+0x2b5/0x3c0 [ 878.399310] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.399727] kthread+0xe1/0x120 [ 878.400031] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.400431] ret_from_fork+0x43/0x70 [ 878.400771] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 878.401127] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 878.401543] </TASK> [ 878.401760] Modules l ---truncated---
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-1284 · Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input