High 7.8Published Aug 22, 2025

CVE-2025-38659gfs2: No more self recovery

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 9:23 PM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: No more self recovery When a node withdraws and it turns out that it is the only node that has the filesystem mounted, gfs2 currently tries to replay the local journal to bring the filesystem back into a consistent state. Not only is that a very bad idea, it has also never worked because gfs2_recover_func() will refuse to do anything during a withdraw. However, before even getting to this point, gfs2_recover_func() dereferences sdp->sd_jdesc->jd_inode. This was a use-after-free before commit 04133b607a78 ("gfs2: Prevent double iput for journal on error") and is a NULL pointer dereference since then. Simply get rid of self recovery to fix that.

CVSS: 7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Oct 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 15, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	601ef0d52e9617588fcff3df26953592f2eb44ac builds before 69cf5699a402ee7ae1be53954dc2ae652c0a053c; 601ef0d52e9617588fcff3df26953592f2eb44ac builds before 6ebe17b359bead383581f729e43f591c1c36e159; 601ef0d52e9617588fcff3df26953592f2eb44ac builds before 1a91ba12abef628b43cada87478328274d988e88; from 601ef0d52e9617588fcff3df26953592f2eb44ac before f5426ffbec971a8f7346a57392d3a901bdee5a9b; from 601ef0d52e9617588fcff3df26953592f2eb44ac before 6784367b2f3cd7b89103de35764f37f152590dbd; 601ef0d52e9617588fcff3df26953592f2eb44ac builds before 97c94c7dbddc34d353c83b541b3decabf98d04af; from 601ef0d52e9617588fcff3df26953592f2eb44ac before deb016c1669002e48c431d6fd32ea1c20ef41756	CNA record
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel	from 5.7 before 6.6.102; from 6.7 before 6.12.42; from 6.13 before 6.15.10; from 6.16 before 6.16.1	NVD

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69cf5699a402ee7ae1be53954dc2ae652c0a053c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ebe17b359bead383581f729e43f591c1c36e159
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a91ba12abef628b43cada87478328274d988e88	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5426ffbec971a8f7346a57392d3a901bdee5a9b	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6784367b2f3cd7b89103de35764f37f152590dbd	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97c94c7dbddc34d353c83b541b3decabf98d04af	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/deb016c1669002e48c431d6fd32ea1c20ef41756	patch

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