CVE-2025-68168 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-68168

jfs: fix uninitialized waitqueue in transaction manager

Vulnerability Description

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 tid_to_tblock(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().

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
2a8807f9f511c64de0c7cc9900a1683e3d72a3e5, 5c094ca994824e038b6a97835ded4e5d1d808504, 2febd5f81e4bfba61d9f374dcca628aff374cc56, aa7cdf487ab3fa47284daaccc3d7d5de01c6a84c, 95e2b352c03b0a86c5717ba1d24ea20969abcacc, a88efca805bea93cea9187dfd00835aa7093bf1b, 97c1f26e4d4af55e8584e4646dd5c5fa7baf62c7, b0ed8ed0428ee96092da6fefa5cfacbe4abed701, 5.4.255, 5.10.192, 5.15.123, 6.1.42, 4.14.324, 4.19.293, 6.4.7, 6.5, 0, 5.4.302, 5.10.247, 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.117, 6.12.58, 6.17.8, 6.18

Timeline

Official Publish: December 16th, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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