vulnerability
SUSE: CVE-2021-47493: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | 05/22/2024 | 08/09/2024 | 02/18/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix race between searching chunks and release journal_head from buffer_head
Encountered a race between ocfs2_test_bg_bit_allocatable() and
jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() resulting in the below vmcore.
PID: 106879 TASK: ffff880244ba9c00 CPU: 2 COMMAND: "loop3"
Call trace:
panic
oops_end
no_context
__bad_area_nosemaphore
bad_area_nosemaphore
__do_page_fault
do_page_fault
page_fault
[exception RIP: ocfs2_block_group_find_clear_bits+316]
ocfs2_block_group_find_clear_bits [ocfs2]
ocfs2_cluster_group_search [ocfs2]
ocfs2_search_chain [ocfs2]
ocfs2_claim_suballoc_bits [ocfs2]
__ocfs2_claim_clusters [ocfs2]
ocfs2_claim_clusters [ocfs2]
ocfs2_local_alloc_slide_window [ocfs2]
ocfs2_reserve_local_alloc_bits [ocfs2]
ocfs2_reserve_clusters_with_limit [ocfs2]
ocfs2_reserve_clusters [ocfs2]
ocfs2_lock_refcount_allocators [ocfs2]
ocfs2_make_clusters_writable [ocfs2]
ocfs2_replace_cow [ocfs2]
ocfs2_refcount_cow [ocfs2]
ocfs2_file_write_iter [ocfs2]
lo_rw_aio
loop_queue_work
kthread_worker_fn
kthread
ret_from_fork
When ocfs2_test_bg_bit_allocatable() called bh2jh(bg_bh), the
bg_bh->b_private NULL as jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() raced and
released the jounal head from the buffer head. Needed to take bit lock
for the bit 'BH_JournalHead' to fix this race.
Solution(s)

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