CVE-2025-39842
kernel: ocfs2: prevent release journal inode after journal shutdown
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UnknownRed 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