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HistoryJun 19, 2024 - 2:53 p.m.

CVE-2021-47579 ovl: fix warning in ovl_create_real()

2024-06-1914:53:46
Linux
github.com
2
linux kernel
vulnerability
warning fix
ovl_create_real
syzbot
overlayfs
cgroup2
filesystem
mkdir
dentry
overlayfs_setup

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ovl: fix warning in ovl_create_real()

Syzbot triggered the following warning in ovl_workdir_create() ->
ovl_create_real():

if (!err && WARN_ON(!newdentry->d_inode)) {

The reason is that the cgroup2 filesystem returns from mkdir without
instantiating the new dentry.

Weird filesystems such as this will be rejected by overlayfs at a later
stage during setup, but to prevent such a warning, call ovl_mkdir_real()
directly from ovl_workdir_create() and reject this case early.

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial