vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-57927: kernel: nfs: Fix oops in nfs_netfs_init_request() when copying to cache

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 19, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfs: Fix oops in nfs_netfs_init_request() when copying to cache

When netfslib wants to copy some data that has just been read on behalf of
nfs, it creates a new write request and calls nfs_netfs_init_request() to
initialise it, but with a NULL file pointer. This causes
nfs_file_open_context() to oops - however, we don't actually need the nfs
context as we're only going to write to the cache.

Fix this by just returning if we aren't given a file pointer and emit a
warning if the request was for something other than copy-to-cache.

Further, fix nfs_netfs_free_request() so that it doesn't try to free the
context if the pointer is NULL.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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