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CVE-2024-26956

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CVE-2024-26956

Published: May 1, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix failure to detect DAT corruption in btree and direct mappings Patch series "nilfs2: fix kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc()". This resolves a kernel BUG reported by syzbot. Since there are two flaws involved, I've made each one a separate patch. The first patch alone resolves the syzbot-reported bug, but I think both fixes should be sent to stable, so I've tagged them as such. This patch (of 2): Syzbot has reported a kernel bug in submit_bh_wbc() when writing file data to a nilfs2 file system whose metadata is corrupted. There are two flaws involved in this issue. The first flaw is that when nilfs_get_block() locates a data block using btree or direct mapping, if the disk address translation routine nilfs_dat_translate() fails with internal code -ENOENT due to DAT metadata corruption, it can be passed back to nilfs_get_block(). This causes nilfs_get_block() to misidentify an existing block as non-existent, causing both data block lookup and insertion to fail inconsistently. The second flaw is that nilfs_get_block() returns a successful status in this inconsistent state. This causes the caller __block_write_begin_int() or others to request a read even though the buffer is not mapped, resulting in a BUG_ON check for the BH_Mapped flag in submit_bh_wbc() failing. This fixes the first issue by changing the return value to code -EINVAL when a conversion using DAT fails with code -ENOENT, avoiding the conflicting condition that leads to the kernel bug described above. Here, code -EINVAL indicates that metadata corruption was detected during the block lookup, which will be properly handled as a file system error and converted to -EIO when passing through the nilfs2 bmap layer.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c - < b67189690eb4b7ecc84ae16fa1e880e0123eaa35
affected
c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c - < 9cbe1ad5f4354f4df1445e5f4883983328cd6d8e
affected
c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c - < c3b5c5c31e723b568f83d8cafab8629d9d830ffb
affected
c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c - < 2e2619ff5d0def4bb6c2037a32a6eaa28dd95c84
affected
c3a7abf06ce719a51139e62a034590be99abbc2c - < 46b832e09d43b394ac0f6d9485d2b1a06593f0b7

+4 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
2.6.31
unaffected
0 - < 2.6.31
unaffected
4.19.312 - <= 4.19.*
unaffected
5.4.274 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.215 - <= 5.10.*

+6 more versions

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