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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Jan 11, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 11, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

xfs: unlock inodes when erroring out of xfs_trans_alloc_dir

Debugging a filesystem patch with generic/475 caused the system to hang
after observing the following sequences in dmesg:

XFS (dm-0): metadata I/O error in "xfs_imap_to_bp+0x61/0xe0 [xfs]" at daddr 0x491520 len 32 error 5
XFS (dm-0): metadata I/O error in "xfs_btree_read_buf_block+0xba/0x160 [xfs]" at daddr 0x3445608 len 8 error 5
XFS (dm-0): metadata I/O error in "xfs_imap_to_bp+0x61/0xe0 [xfs]" at daddr 0x138e1c0 len 32 error 5
XFS (dm-0): log I/O error -5
XFS (dm-0): Metadata I/O Error (0x1) detected at xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x1ea/0x4b0 [xfs] (fs/xfs/xfs_trans_buf.c:311). Shutting down filesystem.
XFS (dm-0): Please unmount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)
XFS (dm-0): Internal error dqp->q_ino.reserved < dqp->q_ino.count at line 869 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.c. Caller xfs_trans_dqresv+0x236/0x440 [xfs]
XFS (dm-0): Corruption detected. Unmount and run xfs_repair
XFS (dm-0): Unmounting Filesystem be6bcbcc-9921-4deb-8d16-7cc94e335fa7

The system is stuck in unmount trying to lock a couple of inodes so that
they can be purged. The dquot corruption notice above is a clue to what
happened -- a link() call tried to set up a transaction to link a child
into a directory. Quota reservation for the transaction failed after IO
errors shut down the filesystem, but then we forgot to unlock the inodes
on our way out. Fix that.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 11, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 11, 2025
Last updated Jan 11, 2025

Severity

Unknown

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2024-55641

GHSA ID

GHSA-wcwc-pxvq-956h

Source code

No known source code

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