SUSE CVE-2022-50506

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drbd: only clone bio if we have a backing device Commit c347a787e34cb drbd: set -bibdev in drbdreqnew moved a biosetdev call which has since been removed to "earlier", from drbdrequestprepare to drbdreqnew. The problem is that th...

CVE-2022-50506 drbd: only clone bio if we have a backing device

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drbd: only clone bio if we have a backing device Commit c347a787e34cb drbd: set -bibdev in drbdreqnew moved a biosetdev call which has since been removed to "earlier", from drbdrequestprepare to drbdreqnew. The problem is that th...

frood, an Alpine initramfs NAS

My NAS, frood, has a bit of a weird setup. It’s just one big initramfs containing a whole Alpine Linux system. It’s delightful and I am not sure why it’s not more common. As long as the bootloader can find the kernel and initramfs, the machine comes up cleanly. A/B deployments and rollbacks are...

kernel: drbd: only clone bio if we have a backing device

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the Linux kernel Distributed Replicated Block Device driver's I/O request handling. A local user with privileges to perform I/O operations on a DRBD block device can trigger I/O requests when the DRBD device is configured in diskless mode no local backing...