CVE-2024-42315
Published: Aug 17, 2024
Modified: May 23, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: fix potential deadlock on __exfat_get_dentry_set When accessing a file with more entries than ES_MAX_ENTRY_NUM, the bh-array is allocated in __exfat_get_entry_set. The problem is that the bh-array is allocated with GFP_KERNEL. It does not make sense. In the following cases, a deadlock for sbi->s_lock between the two processes may occur. CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- kswapd balance_pgdat lock(fs_reclaim) exfat_iterate lock(&sbi->s_lock) exfat_readdir exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry exfat_get_dentry_set __exfat_get_dentry_set kmalloc_array ... lock(fs_reclaim) ... evict exfat_evict_inode lock(&sbi->s_lock) To fix this, let's allocate bh-array with GFP_NOFS.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected bd3bdb9e0d656f760b11d0c638d35d7f7068144d - < 632fb232b6bbf8277edcbe9ecd4b4d98ecb122ebaffected 92dcd7d6c6068bf4fd35a6f64d606e27d634807e - < c052f775ee6ccacd3c97e4cf41a2a657e63d4259affected d8fe01ad2d8ab33aaf8f2efad9e8f1dae11c4b0c - < cd1c7858641384191ff7033fb1fc65dfcd559c6faffected a3ff29a95fde16906304455aa8c0bd84eb770258 - < a7ac198f8dba791e3144c4da48a5a9b95773ee4baffected a3ff29a95fde16906304455aa8c0bd84eb770258 - < 1d1970493c289e3f44b9ec847ed26a5dbdf56a62+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.2unaffected 0 - < 6.2unaffected 5.10.232 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.175 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.6.44 - <= 6.6.*+2 more versions |
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