Bug 2360196 (CVE-2024-58094)

Summary: CVE-2024-58094 kernel: jfs: add check read-only before truncation in jfs_truncate_nolock()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-16 15:02:07 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

jfs: add check read-only before truncation in jfs_truncate_nolock()

Added a check for "read-only" mode in the `jfs_truncate_nolock`
function to avoid errors related to writing to a read-only
filesystem.

Call stack:

block_write_begin() {
  jfs_write_failed() {
    jfs_truncate() {
      jfs_truncate_nolock() {
        txEnd() {
          ...
          log = JFS_SBI(tblk->sb)->log;
          // (log == NULL)

If the `isReadOnly(ip)` condition is triggered in
`jfs_truncate_nolock`, the function execution will stop, and no
further data modification will occur. Instead, the `xtTruncate`
function will be called with the "COMMIT_WMAP" flag, preventing
modifications in "read-only" mode.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-04-17 16:06:17 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025041652-CVE-2024-58094-b87b@gregkh/T