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CVE-2025-40233

kernel: ocfs2: clear extent cache after moving/defragmenting extents

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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Published · December 4, 2025

Updated · October 30, 2026

Description

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

ocfs2: clear extent cache after moving/defragmenting extents

The extent map cache can become stale when extents are moved or defragmented, causing subsequent operations to see outdated extent flags. This triggers a BUG_ON in ocfs2_refcount_cal_cow_clusters().

The problem occurs when:

  1. copy_file_range() creates a reflinked extent with OCFS2_EXT_REFCOUNTED
  2. ioctl(FITRIM) triggers ocfs2_move_extents()
  3. __ocfs2_move_extents_range() reads and caches the extent (flags=0x2)
  4. ocfs2_move_extent()/ocfs2_defrag_extent() calls __ocfs2_move_extent() which clears OCFS2_EXT_REFCOUNTED flag on disk (flags=0x0)
  5. The extent map cache is not invalidated after the move
  6. Later write() operations read stale cached flags (0x2) but disk has updated flags (0x0), causing a mismatch
  7. BUG_ON(!(rec->e_flags & OCFS2_EXT_REFCOUNTED)) triggers

Fix by clearing the extent map cache after each extent move/defrag operation in __ocfs2_move_extents_range(). This ensures subsequent operations read fresh extent data from disk.

Statement

This vulnerability poses no security risk to Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments because the OCFS2 file system is neither enabled nor built in Red Hat kernels. The underlying issue involves stale cache data during extent defragmentation or relocation that triggers a denial of service via a kernel panic. Because the affected file system code is absent from supported Red Hat products, enterprise deployments remain unaffected.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified