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Revert "libfs: fix infinite directory reads for offset dir"

Published Feb 12, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

Revert "libfs: fix infinite directory reads for offset dir"

The current directory offset allocator (based on mtree_alloc_cyclic)
stores the next offset value to return in octx->next_offset. This
mechanism typically returns values that increase monotonically over
time. Eventually, though, the newly allocated offset value wraps
back to a low number (say, 2) which is smaller than other already-
allocated offset values.

Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com> reports that, after commit 64a7ce76fb90
("libfs: fix infinite directory reads for offset dir"), if a
directory's offset allocator wraps, existing entries are no longer
visible via readdir/getdents because offset_readdir() stops listing
entries once an entry's offset is larger than octx->next_offset.
These entries vanish persistently -- they can be looked up, but will
never again appear in readdir(3) output.

The reason for this is that the commit treats directory offsets as
monotonically increasing integer values rather than opaque cookies,
and introduces this comparison:

if (dentry2offset(dentry) >= last_index) {

On 64-bit platforms, the directory offset value upper bound is
2^63 - 1. Directory offsets will monotonically increase for millions
of years without wrapping.

On 32-bit platforms, however, LONG_MAX is 2^31 - 1. The allocator
can wrap after only a few weeks (at worst).

Revert commit 64a7ce76fb90 ("libfs: fix infinite directory reads for
offset dir") to prepare for a fix that can work properly on 32-bit
systems and might apply to recent LTS kernels where shmem employs
the simple_offset mechanism.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.10.7 – < 6.11, 6.11 6.11

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.12.12-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.12-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-62.65 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1030.32 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1030.35 USN-7596-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-nvidia 6.8.0-1018.19 USN-7596-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1031.33 USN-7595-5
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.11 +1 6.11.0-1013.13~24.04.1 USN-7448-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1026.30 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1013.15 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.11 6.11.0-24.24~24.04.1 USN-7445-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1027.27 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-62.65.1 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 6.11.0-1012.13~24.04.1 USN-7445-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1029.32 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.11 6.11.0-1007.7 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1029.32.1 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1008.8 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.11 6.11.0-1020.20 USN-7445-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.8 6.8.0-1029.29 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1027.28 USN-7595-4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1029.33 USN-7595-4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1030.32~22.04.1 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1030.35~22.04.1 USN-7596-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1031.33~22.04.1 USN-7595-5
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-64.67~22.04.1 USN-7653-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1027.27~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-62.65.1~22.04.1 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1029.32~22.04.1 USN-7595-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1027.28~22.04.1 USN-7595-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-62.65~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2024.25 USN-7595-3
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1023.24 USN-7595-2
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1023.24~22.04.1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-64kb +7 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-64kb +7 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1, SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-rt +5 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20560-1, SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 openSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-rt +10 6.12.0-160000.6.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-101.33.4.3.el10uek ELSA-2025-20530, ELSA-2025-20480

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