CVE-2025-37839

Published May 9, 2025

Last updated a month ago

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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jbd2: remove wrong sb->s_sequence check Journal emptiness is not determined by sb->s_sequence == 0 but rather by sb->s_start == 0 (which is set a few lines above). Furthermore 0 is a valid transaction ID so the check can spuriously trigger. Remove the invalid WARN_ON.
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416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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  1. CVE-2025-37839 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jbd2: remove wrong sb->s_sequence check Journal emptiness is not determined by sb->s_sequence ==… https://t.co/JrMLKNjDGr

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    9 May 2025

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