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CVE-2025-39842

kernel: ocfs2: prevent release journal inode after journal shutdown

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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Published · September 19, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

ocfs2: prevent release journal inode after journal shutdown

Before calling ocfs2_delete_osb(), ocfs2_journal_shutdown() has already been executed in ocfs2_dismount_volume(), so osb->journal must be NULL. Therefore, the following calltrace will inevitably fail when it reaches jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode().

ocfs2_dismount_volume()-> ocfs2_delete_osb()-> ocfs2_free_slot_info()-> __ocfs2_free_slot_info()-> evict()-> ocfs2_evict_inode()-> ocfs2_clear_inode()-> jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode(osb->journal->j_journal,

Adding osb->journal checks will prevent null-ptr-deref during the above execution path.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified