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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-57942

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 1/21/2025 8:15:08 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

netfs: Fix ceph copy to cache on write-begin

At the end of netfs_unlock_read_folio() in which folios are marked
appropriately for copying to the cache (either with by being marked dirty
and having their private data set or by having PG_private_2 set) and then
unlocked, the folio_queue struct has the entry pointing to the folio
cleared.  This presents a problem for netfs_pgpriv2_write_to_the_cache(),
which is used to write folios marked with PG_private_2 to the cache as it
expects to be able to trawl the folio_queue list thereafter to find the
relevant folios, leading to a hang.

Fix this by not clearing the folio_queue entry if we're going to do the
deprecated copy-to-cache.  The clearance will be done instead as the folios
are written to the cache.

This can be reproduced by starting cachefiles, mounting a ceph filesystem
with "-o fsc" and writing to it.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38cf8e945721ffe708fa675507465da7f4f2a9f7
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43b8d3249b0b71bad239d42dbe08ce6c938ba000