Bug 2320481 (CVE-2024-50014)

Summary:	CVE-2024-50014 kernel: ext4: fix access to uninitialised lock in fc replay path
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-10-21 19:04:55 UTC

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

ext4: fix access to uninitialised lock in fc replay path

The following kernel trace can be triggered with fstest generic/629 when
executed against a filesystem with fast-commit feature enabled:

INFO: trying to register non-static key.
The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
you didn't initialize this object before use?
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 0 PID: 866 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.10.0+ #11
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-3-gd478f380-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x66/0x90
 register_lock_class+0x759/0x7d0
 __lock_acquire+0x85/0x2630
 ? __find_get_block+0xb4/0x380
 lock_acquire+0xd1/0x2d0
 ? __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0xd5/0x160
 _raw_spin_lock+0x33/0x40
 ? __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0xd5/0x160
 __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0xd5/0x160
 ext4_reserve_inode_write+0x61/0xb0
 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x79/0x270
 ? ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks+0x2f8/0x450
 ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks+0x330/0x450
 ext4_fc_replay+0x14c8/0x1540
 ? jread+0x88/0x2e0
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0x40
 do_one_pass+0x447/0xd00
 jbd2_journal_recover+0x139/0x1b0
 jbd2_journal_load+0x96/0x390
 ext4_load_and_init_journal+0x253/0xd40
 ext4_fill_super+0x2cc6/0x3180
...

In the replay path there's an attempt to lock sbi->s_bdev_wb_lock in
function ext4_check_bdev_write_error().  Unfortunately, at this point this
spinlock has not been initialized yet.  Moving it's initialization to an
earlier point in __ext4_fill_super() fixes this splat.

Comment 1 Michal Findra 2024-10-22 12:00:44 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102110-CVE-2024-50014-d684@gregkh/T

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:30:06 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966