CVE-2025-40196
CVE-2025-40196CVE-2025-40196
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs: quota: create dedicated workqueue for quota_release_work
There is a kernel panic due to WARN_ONCE when panic_on_warn is set.
This issue occurs when writeback is triggered due to sync call for an
opened file(ie, writeback reason is WB_REASON_SYNC). When f2fs balance
is needed at sync path, flush for quota_release_work is triggered.
By default quota_release_work is queued to "events_unbound" queue which
does not have WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag. During f2fs balance "writeback"
workqueue tries to flush quota_release_work causing kernel panic due to
MEM_RECLAIM flag mismatch errors.
This patch creates dedicated workqueue with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag
for work quota_release_work.
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WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 14867 at kernel/workqueue.c:3721 check_flush_dependency+0x13c/0x148
Call trace:
check_flush_dependency+0x13c/0x148
__flush_work+0xd0/0x398
flush_delayed_work+0x44/0x5c
dquot_writeback_dquots
Scoring
| Last modified | 2026-07-24 |