CVE-2025-22072

spufs: fix gang directory lifetimes

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 16, 2025 at 02:12 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spufs: fix gang directory lifetimes prior to "[POWERPC] spufs: Fix gang destroy leaks" we used to have a problem with gang lifetimes - creation of a gang returns opened gang directory, which normally gets removed when that gets closed, but if somebody has created a context belonging to that gang and kept it alive until the gang got closed, removal failed and we ended up with a leak. Unfortunately, it had been fixed the wrong way. Dentry of gang directory was no longer pinned, and rmdir on close was gone. One problem was that failure of open kept calling simple_rmdir() as cleanup, which meant an unbalanced dput(). Another bug was in the success case - gang creation incremented link count on root directory, but that was no longer undone when gang got destroyed. Fix consists of * reverting the commit in question * adding a counter to gang, protected by ->i_rwsem of gang directory inode. * having it set to 1 at creation time, dropped in both spufs_dir_close() and spufs_gang_close() and bumped in spufs_create_context(), provided that it's not 0. * using simple_recursive_removal() to take the gang directory out when counter reaches zero.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.6.22 ≤ v < 6.1.1342.6.22 ≤ v < 6.12.232.6.22 ≤ v < 6.13.112.6.22 ≤ v < 6.14.22.6.22 ≤ v < 6.152.6.22 ≤ v < 6.6.872.6.23 ≤ v < 6.1.1346.13 ≤ v < 6.13.116.14 ≤ v < 6.14.26.2 ≤ v < 6.6.876.7 ≤ v < 6.12.232.6.222.6.22 rc52.6.22 rc62.6.22 rc7877907d37da9694a34adc9dc3e2ce09400148cb5
Vendor states this is fixed in 029d8c711f5e5fe8cf63e8a4a1a140a06e224e45 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 324f280806aab28ef757aecc18df419676c10ef8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 880e7b3da2e765c1f90c94c0539be039e96c7062 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 903733782f3ae28a2f7fe4dfb47c7fe3e079a528 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c134deabf4784e155d360744d4a6a835b9de4dd4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fc646a6c6d14b5d581f162a7e32999f789e3a3ac (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.22 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.134 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.23 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.13.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.14.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.87 (unaffected)

References (7)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/029d8c711f5e5fe8cf63e8a4a1a140a06e224e45
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/324f280806aab28ef757aecc18df419676c10ef8
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/880e7b3da2e765c1f90c94c0539be039e96c7062
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/903733782f3ae28a2f7fe4dfb47c7fe3e079a528
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c134deabf4784e155d360744d4a6a835b9de4dd4
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc646a6c6d14b5d581f162a7e32999f789e3a3ac
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

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