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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-68168
CVE-2025-68168:
Linux Kernel vulnerability analysis and mitigation
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: fix uninitialized waitqueue in transaction manager
The transaction manager initialization in txInit() was not properly initializing TxBlock[0].waitor waitqueue, causing a crash when txEnd(0) is called on read-only filesystems.
When a filesystem is mounted read-only, txBegin() returns tid=0 to indicate no transaction. However, txEnd(0) still gets called and tries to access TxBlock[0].waitor via tid_to_tblock(0), but this waitqueue was never initialized because the initialization loop started at index 1 instead of 0.
This causes a 'non-static key' lockdep warning and system crash: INFO: trying to register non-static key in txEnd
Fix by ensuring all transaction blocks including TxBlock[0] have their waitqueues properly initialized during txInit().
Source: NVD
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