CVE-2025-40361 fs: ext4: change GFP_KERNEL to GFP_NOFS to avoid deadlock

🗓️ 16 Dec 2025 13:40:00Reported by GoogleType

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CVE-2025-40361 fixes ext4 deadlock by using GFP_NOFS for ext4_xattr_inode_cache_find.

Reporter	Title	Published	Views	Family All 29
Tenable Nessus	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2025-1350)	8 Jan 202600:00	–	nessus
Tenable Nessus	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2025-5.0-0708	10 Dec 202500:00	–	nessus
Tenable Nessus	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40361	16 Dec 202500:00	–	nessus
Amazon	Important: kernel	7 Jan 202600:00	–	amazon
CNNVD	编号撤回	16 Dec 202500:00	–	cnnvd
CVE	CVE-2025-40361	16 Dec 202513:40	–	cve
Cvelist	CVE-2025-40361	16 Dec 202513:40	–	cvelist
Debian CVE	CVE-2025-40361	16 Dec 202513:40	–	debiancve
EUVD	EUVD-2025-203732	16 Dec 202515:30	–	euvd
Mageia	Updated kernel, kmod-virtualbox & kmod-xtables-addons packages fix security vulnerabilities	24 Jan 202620:25	–	mageia

Source	Link
git	www.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/009127b0fc013aed193961686c28c2b541a5b2f3
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/1534f72dc2a11ded38b0e0268fbcc0ca24e9fd4a
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/199ab7b43c5ef7d384f6a08e786e107b3509acda
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/238f7a7356c33a9797a6297c6fdfd87f113b2325
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e6b27f4e68682aa3db9f83ca04adef89903159b
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/add8458cac0b33a5e7a6b98457b38baea9600859
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb7d0d13c6e1f061464d1c425b08348a4e0c235d
github	www.github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/40xxx/CVE-2025-40361.json
nvd	www.nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40361

16 Apr 2026 04:40Current

6.4Medium risk

Vulners AI Score6.4

EPSS0.00032

ext4 xattr inode memory allocation flag deadlock avoidance