CVE-2025-38321

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38321
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38321.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38321
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-10T08:14:57.046Z
Modified
2026-03-12T02:18:20.745500Z
Summary
smb: Log an error when close_all_cached_dirs fails
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: Log an error when closeallcached_dirs fails

Under low-memory conditions, closeallcached_dirs() can't move the dentries to a separate list to dput() them once the locks are dropped. This will result in a "Dentry still in use" error, so add an error message that makes it clear this is what happened:

[ 495.281119] CIFS: VFS: \otters.example.com\share Out of memory while dropping dentries [ 495.281595] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 495.281887] BUG: Dentry ffff888115531138{i=78,n=/} still in use (2) [unmount of cifs cifs] [ 495.282391] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2329 at fs/dcache.c:1536 umount_check+0xc8/0xf0

Also, bail out of looping through all tcons as soon as a single allocation fails, since we're already in trouble, and kmalloc() attempts for subseqeuent tcons are likely to fail just like the first one did.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38321.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / 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
73934e535cffbda1490fa97d82690a0f9aa73e94
Fixed
b8ced2b9a23a1a2c1e0ed8d0d02512e51bdf38da
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
548812afd96982a76a93ba76c0582ea670c40d9e
Fixed
43f26094d6702e494e800532c3f1606e7a68eb30
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
3fa640d035e5ae526769615c35cb9ed4be6e3662
Fixed
4479db143390bdcadc1561292aab579cdfa9f6c6
Fixed
a2182743a8b4969481f64aec4908ff162e8a206c
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ff4528bbc82d0d90073751f7b49e7b9e9c7e5638

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38321.json"