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CVE-2024-26696 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix hang in nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() Syzbot reported a hang issue in migrate_pages_batch() called by mbind() and nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() called in the log writer of nilfs2. While migrate_pages_batch() locks a folio and waits for the writeback to complete, the log writer thread that should bring the writeback to completion picks up the folio being written back in nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() that it calls for subsequent log creation and was trying to lock the folio. Thus causing a deadlock. In the first place, it is unexpected that folios/pages in the middle of writeback will be updated and become dirty. Nilfs2 adds a checksum to verify the validity of the log being written and uses it for recovery at mount, so data changes during writeback are suppressed. Since this is broken, an unclean shutdown could potentially cause recovery to fail. Investigation revealed that the root cause is that the wait for writeback completion in nilfs_page_mkwrite() is conditional, and if the backing device does not require stable writes, data may be modified without waiting. Fix these issues by making nilfs_page_mkwrite() wait for writeback to finish regardless of the stable write requirement of the backing device.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/228742b2ddfb99dfd71e5a307e6088ab6836272e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38296afe3c6ee07319e01bb249aa4bb47c07b534
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e9b622bd0748cc104d66535b76d9b3535f9dc0f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8494ba2c9ea00a54d5b50e69b22c55a8958bce32
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/862ee4422c38be5c249844a684b00d0dbe9d1e46
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98a4026b22ff440c7f47056481bcbbe442f607d6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e38585401d464578d30f5868ff4ca54475c34f7d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea5ddbc11613b55e5128c85f57b08f907abd9b28

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-26696
NVD Published Date:
04/03/2024
NVD Last Modified:
11/05/2024
Source:
kernel.org