CVE-2025-68168

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68168
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68168.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-68168
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-12-16T13:42:48.350Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:46:15.287652Z
Summary
jfs: fix uninitialized waitqueue in transaction manager
Details

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

jfs: fix uninitialized waitqueue in transaction manager

The transaction manager initialization in txInit() was not properly initializing TxBlock[0].waitor waitqueue, causing a crash when txEnd(0) is called on read-only filesystems.

When a filesystem is mounted read-only, txBegin() returns tid=0 to indicate no transaction. However, txEnd(0) still gets called and tries to access TxBlock[0].waitor via tidtotblock(0), but this waitqueue was never initialized because the initialization loop started at index 1 instead of 0.

This causes a 'non-static key' lockdep warning and system crash: INFO: trying to register non-static key in txEnd

Fix by ensuring all transaction blocks including TxBlock[0] have their waitqueues properly initialized during txInit().

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/68xxx/CVE-2025-68168.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
2a8807f9f511c64de0c7cc9900a1683e3d72a3e5
Fixed
d6af7fce2e162ac68e85d3a11eb6ac8c35b24b64
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5c094ca994824e038b6a97835ded4e5d1d808504
Fixed
8cae9cf23e0bd424ac904e753639a587543ce03a
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
2febd5f81e4bfba61d9f374dcca628aff374cc56
Fixed
a2aa97cde9857f881920635a2e3d3b11769619c5
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
aa7cdf487ab3fa47284daaccc3d7d5de01c6a84c
Fixed
d2dd7ca05a11685c314e62802a55e8d67a90e974
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
95e2b352c03b0a86c5717ba1d24ea20969abcacc
Fixed
2a9575a372182ca075070b3cd77490dcf0c951e7
Fixed
cbf2f527ae4ca7c7dabce42e85e8deb58588a37e
Fixed
038861414ab383b41dd35abbf9ff0ef715592d53
Fixed
300b072df72694ea330c4c673c035253e07827b8
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
a88efca805bea93cea9187dfd00835aa7093bf1b
Last affected
97c1f26e4d4af55e8584e4646dd5c5fa7baf62c7
Last affected
b0ed8ed0428ee96092da6fefa5cfacbe4abed701

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68168.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.4.302
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.247
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.197
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.159
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.117
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.5.0
Fixed
6.12.58
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.17.8

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68168.json"