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HistoryAug 17, 2024 - 9:09 a.m.

CVE-2024-42315 exfat: fix potential deadlock on __exfat_get_dentry_set

2024-08-1709:09:23
Linux
github.com
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linux kernel
exfat
vulnerability
deadlock

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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

exfat: fix potential deadlock on __exfat_get_dentry_set

When accessing a file with more entries than ES_MAX_ENTRY_NUM, the bh-array
is allocated in __exfat_get_entry_set. The problem is that the bh-array is
allocated with GFP_KERNEL. It does not make sense. In the following cases,
a deadlock for sbi->s_lock between the two processes may occur.

   CPU0                CPU1
   ----                ----

kswapd
balance_pgdat
lock(fs_reclaim)
exfat_iterate
lock(&sbi->s_lock)
exfat_readdir
exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry
exfat_get_dentry_set
__exfat_get_dentry_set
kmalloc_array

lock(fs_reclaim)

evict
exfat_evict_inode
lock(&sbi->s_lock)

To fix this, let’s allocate bh-array with GFP_NOFS.

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial