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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-50202

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 11/08/2024 1:15:16 AM

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Added Description

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

nilfs2: propagate directory read errors from nilfs_find_entry()

Syzbot reported that a task hang occurs in vcs_open() during a fuzzing
test for nilfs2.

The root cause of this problem is that in nilfs_find_entry(), which
searches for directory entries, ignores errors when loading a directory
page/folio via nilfs_get_folio() fails.

If the filesystem images is corrupted, and the i_size of the directory
inode is large, and the directory page/folio is successfully read but
fails the sanity check, for example when it is zero-filled,
nilfs_check_folio() may continue to spit out error messages in bursts.

Fix this issue by propagating the error to the callers when loading a
page/folio fails in nilfs_find_entry().

The current interface of nilfs_find_entry() and its callers is outdated
and cannot propagate error codes such as -EIO and -ENOMEM returned via
nilfs_find_entry(), so fix it together.
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08cfa12adf888db98879dbd735bc741360a34168 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/270a6f9df35fa2aea01ec23770dc9b3fc9a12989 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9698088ac7704e260f492d9c254e29ed7dd8729a [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1d0476885d708a932980b0f28cd90d9bd71db39 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edf8146057264191d5bfe5b91773f13d936dadd3 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efa810b15a25531cbc2f527330947b9fe16916e7 [No types assigned]