{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-40220", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T07:20:57.180Z", "datePublished": "2025-12-04T14:50:44.108Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-23T16:01:42.651Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-23T16:01:42.651Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk workers\n\nI observed a hang when running generic/323 against a fuseblk server.\nThis test opens a file, initiates a lot of AIO writes to that file\ndescriptor, and closes the file descriptor before the writes complete.\nUnsurprisingly, the AIO exerciser threads are mostly stuck waiting for\nresponses from the fuseblk server:\n\n# cat /proc/372265/task/372313/stack\n[<0>] request_wait_answer+0x1fe/0x2a0 [fuse]\n[<0>] __fuse_simple_request+0xd3/0x2b0 [fuse]\n[<0>] fuse_do_getattr+0xfc/0x1f0 [fuse]\n[<0>] fuse_file_read_iter+0xbe/0x1c0 [fuse]\n[<0>] aio_read+0x130/0x1e0\n[<0>] io_submit_one+0x542/0x860\n[<0>] __x64_sys_io_submit+0x98/0x1a0\n[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x37/0xf0\n[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n\nBut the /weird/ part is that the fuseblk server threads are waiting for\nresponses from itself:\n\n# cat /proc/372210/task/372232/stack\n[<0>] request_wait_answer+0x1fe/0x2a0 [fuse]\n[<0>] __fuse_simple_request+0xd3/0x2b0 [fuse]\n[<0>] fuse_file_put+0x9a/0xd0 [fuse]\n[<0>] fuse_release+0x36/0x50 [fuse]\n[<0>] __fput+0xec/0x2b0\n[<0>] task_work_run+0x55/0x90\n[<0>] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xe9/0x100\n[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x43/0xf0\n[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n\nThe fuseblk server is fuse2fs so there's nothing all that exciting in\nthe server itself. So why is the fuse server calling fuse_file_put?\nThe commit message for the fstest sheds some light on that:\n\n\"By closing the file descriptor before calling io_destroy, you pretty\nmuch guarantee that the last put on the ioctx will be done in interrupt\ncontext (during I/O completion).\n\nAha. AIO fgets a new struct file from the fd when it queues the ioctx.\nThe completion of the FUSE_WRITE command from userspace causes the fuse\nserver to call the AIO completion function. The completion puts the\nstruct file, queuing a delayed fput to the fuse server task. When the\nfuse server task returns to userspace, it has to run the delayed fput,\nwhich in the case of a fuseblk server, it does synchronously.\n\nSending the FUSE_RELEASE command sychronously from fuse server threads\nis a bad idea because a client program can initiate enough simultaneous\nAIOs such that all the fuse server threads end up in delayed_fput, and\nnow there aren't any threads left to handle the queued fuse commands.\n\nFix this by only using asynchronous fputs when closing files, and leave\na comment explaining why." } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/fuse/file.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "5a18ec176c934ca1bc9dc61580a5e0e90a9b5733", "lessThan": "548e1f2bac1d4df91a6138f26bb4ab00323fd948", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "5a18ec176c934ca1bc9dc61580a5e0e90a9b5733", "lessThan": 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