vulnerability
SUSE: CVE-2024-26848: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) | 04/17/2024 | 05/06/2024 | 02/18/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
afs: Fix endless loop in directory parsing
If a directory has a block with only ".__afsXXXX" files in it (from
uncompleted silly-rename), these .__afsXXXX files are skipped but without
advancing the file position in the dir_context. This leads to
afs_dir_iterate() repeating the block again and again.
Fix this by making the code that skips the .__afsXXXX file also manually
advance the file position.
The symptoms are a soft lookup:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 52s! [check:5737]
...
RIP: 0010:afs_dir_iterate_block+0x39/0x1fd
...
? watchdog_timer_fn+0x1a6/0x213
...
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20
? afs_dir_iterate_block+0x39/0x1fd
afs_dir_iterate+0x10a/0x148
afs_readdir+0x30/0x4a
iterate_dir+0x93/0xd3
__do_sys_getdents64+0x6b/0xd4
This is almost certainly the actual fix for:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218496
Solution(s)
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