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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-57927

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 1/19/2025 7:15:26 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

nfs: Fix oops in nfs_netfs_init_request() when copying to cache

When netfslib wants to copy some data that has just been read on behalf of
nfs, it creates a new write request and calls nfs_netfs_init_request() to
initialise it, but with a NULL file pointer.  This causes
nfs_file_open_context() to oops - however, we don't actually need the nfs
context as we're only going to write to the cache.

Fix this by just returning if we aren't given a file pointer and emit a
warning if the request was for something other than copy-to-cache.

Further, fix nfs_netfs_free_request() so that it doesn't try to free the
context if the pointer is NULL.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13a07cc81e2d116cece727a83746c74b87a9d417
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86ad1a58f6a9453f49e06ef957a40a8dac00a13f