Bug 2339141 (CVE-2024-57942) - CVE-2024-57942 kernel: netfs: Fix ceph copy to cache on write-begin
Summary: CVE-2024-57942 kernel: netfs: Fix ceph copy to cache on write-begin
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-57942
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2025-01-21 13:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-01-21 19:00 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-01-21 13:03:05 UTC
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.


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