CVE-2024-53130
Published: Dec 4, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref in block_dirty_buffer tracepoint When using the "block:block_dirty_buffer" tracepoint, mark_buffer_dirty() may cause a NULL pointer dereference, or a general protection fault when KASAN is enabled. This happens because, since the tracepoint was added in mark_buffer_dirty(), it references the dev_t member bh->b_bdev->bd_dev regardless of whether the buffer head has a pointer to a block_device structure. In the current implementation, nilfs_grab_buffer(), which grabs a buffer to read (or create) a block of metadata, including b-tree node blocks, does not set the block device, but instead does so only if the buffer is not in the "uptodate" state for each of its caller block reading functions. However, if the uptodate flag is set on a folio/page, and the buffer heads are detached from it by try_to_free_buffers(), and new buffer heads are then attached by create_empty_buffers(), the uptodate flag may be restored to each buffer without the block device being set to bh->b_bdev, and mark_buffer_dirty() may be called later in that state, resulting in the bug mentioned above. Fix this issue by making nilfs_grab_buffer() always set the block device of the super block structure to the buffer head, regardless of the state of the buffer's uptodate flag.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 5305cb830834549b9203ad4d009ad5483c5e293f - < 7af3309c7a2ef26831a67125b11c34a7e01c1b2aaffected 5305cb830834549b9203ad4d009ad5483c5e293f - < 0ce59fb1c73fdd5b6028226aeb46259a0cdc0957affected 5305cb830834549b9203ad4d009ad5483c5e293f - < 0a5014ad37c77ac6a2c525137c00a0e1724f6020affected 5305cb830834549b9203ad4d009ad5483c5e293f - < d904e4d845aafbcfd8a40c1df7d999f02f062be8affected 5305cb830834549b9203ad4d009ad5483c5e293f - < 86b19031dbc79abc378dfae357f6ea33ebeb0c95+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.9unaffected 0 - < 3.9unaffected 4.19.325 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.287 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.231 - <= 5.10.*+5 more versions |
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