CVE-2024-56686 Detail
Awaiting Analysis
This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis. DescriptionIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix race in buffer_head read fault injection When I enabled ext4 debug for fault injection testing, I encountered the following warning: EXT4-fs error (device sda): ext4_read_inode_bitmap:201: comm fsstress: Cannot read inode bitmap - block_group = 8, inode_bitmap = 1051 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 511 at fs/buffer.c:1181 mark_buffer_dirty+0x1b3/0x1d0 The root cause of the issue lies in the improper implementation of ext4's buffer_head read fault injection. The actual completion of buffer_head read and the buffer_head fault injection are not atomic, which can lead to the uptodate flag being cleared on normally used buffer_heads in race conditions. [CPU0] [CPU1] [CPU2] ext4_read_inode_bitmap ext4_read_bh() <bh read complete> ext4_read_inode_bitmap if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) return bh jbd2_journal_commit_transaction __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer __jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer __jbd2_journal_temp_unlink_buffer ext4_simulate_fail_bh() clear_buffer_uptodate mark_buffer_dirty <report warning> WARN_ON_ONCE(!buffer_uptodate(bh)) The best approach would be to perform fault injection in the IO completion callback function, rather than after IO completion. However, the IO completion callback function cannot get the fault injection code in sb. Fix it by passing the result of fault injection into the bh read function, we simulate faults within the bh read function itself. This requires adding an extra parameter to the bh read functions that need fault injection. Metrics
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Quick InfoCVE Dictionary Entry:CVE-2024-56686 NVD Published Date: 12/28/2024 NVD Last Modified: 12/28/2024 Source: kernel.org |
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