dm-integrity: Avoid divide by zero in table status in Inline mode
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-integrity: Avoid divide by zero in table status in Inline mode In Inline mode, the journal is unused, and journal_sectors is zero. Calculating the journal watermark requires dividing by journal_sectors, which should be done only if the journal is configured. Otherwise, a simple table query (dmsetup table) can cause OOPS. This bug did not show on some systems, perhaps only due to compiler optimization. On my 32-bit testing machine, this reliably crashes with the following: : Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP : CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2450 Comm: dmsetup Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2+ #959 : EIP: dm_integrity_status+0x2f8/0xab0 [dm_integrity] ...
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.12.18, 6.13.6
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-21874
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 17:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
dm-integrity: Avoid divide by zero in table status in Inline mode
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 27 Mar 2025, 14:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-integrity: Avoid divide by zero in table status in Inline mode In Inline mode, the journal is unused, and journal_sectors is zero. Calculating the journal watermark requires dividing by journal_sectors, which should be done only if the journal is configured. Otherwise, a simple table query (dmsetup table) can cause OOPS. This bug did not show on some systems, perhaps only due to compiler optimization. On my 32-bit testing machine, this reliably crashes with the following: : Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP : CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2450 Comm: dmsetup Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2+ #959 : EIP: dm_integrity_status+0x2f8/0xab0 [dm_integrity] ...
osv:CVE-2025-21874
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.12.18, 6.13.6
Complete source record
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