{"id":"CVE-2025-22002","summary":"netfs: Call `invalidate_cache` only if implemented","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfs: Call `invalidate_cache` only if implemented\n\nMany filesystems such as NFS and Ceph do not implement the\n`invalidate_cache` method.  On those filesystems, if writing to the\ncache (`NETFS_WRITE_TO_CACHE`) fails for some reason, the kernel\ncrashes like this:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page\n PGD 0 P4D 0\n Oops: Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP PTI\n CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 3380 Comm: kworker/u193:11 Not tainted 6.13.3-cm4all1-hp #437\n Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9/ProLiant DL380 Gen9, BIOS P89 10/17/2018\n Workqueue: events_unbound netfs_write_collection_worker\n RIP: 0010:0x0\n Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.\n RSP: 0018:ffff9b86e2ca7dc0 EFLAGS: 00010202\n RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 7fffffffffffffff\n RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff89259d576a18 RDI: ffff89259d576900\n RBP: ffff89259d5769b0 R08: ffff9b86e2ca7d28 R09: 0000000000000002\n R10: ffff89258ceaca80 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000020\n R13: ffff893d158b9338 R14: ffff89259d576900 R15: ffff89259d5769b0\n FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff893c9fa40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000054442e003 CR4: 00000000001706f0\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  ? __die+0x1f/0x60\n  ? page_fault_oops+0x15c/0x460\n  ? try_to_wake_up+0x2d2/0x530\n  ? exc_page_fault+0x5e/0x100\n  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n  netfs_write_collection_worker+0xe9f/0x12b0\n  ? xs_poll_check_readable+0x3f/0x80\n  ? xs_stream_data_receive_workfn+0x8d/0x110\n  process_one_work+0x134/0x2d0\n  worker_thread+0x299/0x3a0\n  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n  kthread+0xba/0xe0\n  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n  ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50\n  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n Modules linked in:\n CR2: 0000000000000000\n\nThis patch adds the missing `NULL` check.","modified":"2026-04-02T12:45:18.803724Z","published":"2025-04-03T07:19:04.875Z","database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/22xxx/CVE-2025-22002.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0def1a40c3e76a468f8f66aa572caed44ec37277"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/344b7ef248f420ed4ba3a3539cb0a0fc18df9a6c"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2d5d14a7bcbb045d0cd0095cefe95f2a4b91159"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/22xxx/CVE-2025-22002.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22002"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"0e0f2dfe880fb19e4b15a7ca468623eb0b4ba586"},{"fixed":"0def1a40c3e76a468f8f66aa572caed44ec37277"},{"fixed":"c2d5d14a7bcbb045d0cd0095cefe95f2a4b91159"},{"fixed":"344b7ef248f420ed4ba3a3539cb0a0fc18df9a6c"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-22002.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}