CVE-2024-40935

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: flush all requests after setting CACHEFILESDEAD In ondemand mode, when the daemon is processing an open request, if the kernel flags the cache as CACHEFILESDEAD, the cachefilesdaemonwrite will always return -EIO, so t...

CVE-2024-40935

CVE-2024-40935 affects the Linux kernel cachefiles subsystem. In ondemand mode, when the cache is marked as CACHEFILES_DEAD, cachefiles_daemon_write() returns -EIO, preventing the daemon from passing the copen to the kernel and causing a hung_task for the waiting process. The fix requires flushin...