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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-42231

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 7/30/2024 4:15:08 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

btrfs: zoned: fix calc_available_free_space() for zoned mode

calc_available_free_space() returns the total size of metadata (or
system) block groups, which can be allocated from unallocated disk
space. The logic is wrong on zoned mode in two places.

First, the calculation of data_chunk_size is wrong. We always allocate
one zone as one chunk, and no partial allocation of a zone. So, we
should use zone_size (= data_sinfo->chunk_size) as it is.

Second, the result "avail" may not be zone aligned. Since we always
allocate one zone as one chunk on zoned mode, returning non-zone size
aligned bytes will result in less pressure on the async metadata reclaim
process.

This is serious for the nearly full state with a large zone size device.
Allowing over-commit too much will result in less async reclaim work and
end up in ENOSPC. We can align down to the zone size to avoid that.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64d2c847ba380e07b9072d65a50aa6469d2aa43f [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8548903b1999bba02a2b894ad750ab8eb1f40307 [No types assigned]