Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: Regenerate the buddy structure after block freeing fails when under fc replay. This fix primarily reverts to commit 6bd97bf273bd “ext4: Remove redundant mbregeneratebuddy”, and reintroduces the function mbregeneratebuddy...

kernel: ext4: regenerate buddy after block freeing failed if under fc replay

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem related to the fast commit replay process. During this process, blocks that are already marked as free can be incorrectly marked as free again, leading to the corruption of the buddy bitmap, which is used to track free and allocated blocks...