SUSE CVE-2023-53149

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid deadlock in fs reclaim with page writeback Ext4 has a filesystem wide lock protecting ext4writepages calls to avoid races with switching of journalled data flag or inode format. This lock can however cause a deadlock...

CVE-2023-53149

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid deadlock in fs reclaim with page writeback Ext4 has a filesystem wide lock protecting ext4writepages calls to avoid races with switching of journalled data flag or inode format. This lock can however cause a deadlock...

CVE-2023-53149

CVE-2023-53149 concerns the Linux kernel ext4 filesystem. The issue arises from a filesystem-wide lock protecting ext4_writepages() that can deadlock during fs reclaim initiated by page writeback, due to a recursion scenario where ext4_writepages() attempts to acquire sbi->s_writepages_rwsem w...

CVE-2023-53149 ext4: avoid deadlock in fs reclaim with page writeback

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid deadlock in fs reclaim with page writeback Ext4 has a filesystem wide lock protecting ext4writepages calls to avoid races with switching of journalled data flag or inode format. This lock can however cause a deadlock...