Bug 2334436 (CVE-2024-56630) - CVE-2024-56630 kernel: ocfs2: free inode when ocfs2_get_init_inode() fails
Summary: CVE-2024-56630 kernel: ocfs2: free inode when ocfs2_get_init_inode() fails
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-56630
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2024-12-27 15:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-12-28 09:02 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 15:01:54 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: free inode when ocfs2_get_init_inode() fails

syzbot is reporting busy inodes after unmount, for commit 9c89fe0af826
("ocfs2: Handle error from dquot_initialize()") forgot to call iput() when
new_inode() succeeded and dquot_initialize() failed.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-28 08:58:27 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122713-CVE-2024-56630-c856@gregkh/T
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