CVE-2025-38306
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 6.11-6.12.45, 6.13-6.15.2, 6.16 - Race Condition in has_locked_children()
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/fhandle.c: fix a race in call of has_locked_children() may_decode_fh() is calling has_locked_children() while holding no locks. That's an oopsable race... The rest of the callers are safe since they are holding namespace_sem and are guaranteed a positive refcount on the mount in question. Rename the current has_locked_children() to __has_locked_children(), make it static and switch the fs/namespace.c users to it. Make has_locked_children() a wrapper for __has_locked_children(), calling the latter under read_seqlock_excl(&mount_lock).
References (3)
Core 3
Scores
CVSS v3
4.7
EPSS
0.0011
EPSS Percentile
1.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-362
Status
published
Products (11)
linux/Kernel
6.11.0 - 6.12.46linux
linux/Kernel
6.13.0 - 6.15.3linux
Linux/Linux
< 6.11
Linux/Linux
6.11
Linux/Linux
6.12.46 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux
6.15.3 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux
6.16
Linux/Linux
620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4 - 1f282cdc1d219c4a557f7009e81bc792820d9d9a
Linux/Linux
620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4 - 287c7d34eedd37af1272dfb3b6e8656f4f026424
Linux/Linux
620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4 - 6482c3dccbfb8d20e2856ce67c75856859930b3f
... and 1 more
Published
Jul 10, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026