CVE-2024-49870 (GCVE-0-2024-49870)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 18:01 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:22
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Title
cachefiles: fix dentry leak in cachefiles_open_file()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: fix dentry leak in cachefiles_open_file() A dentry leak may be caused when a lookup cookie and a cull are concurrent: P1 | P2 ----------------------------------------------------------- cachefiles_lookup_cookie cachefiles_look_up_object lookup_one_positive_unlocked // get dentry cachefiles_cull inode->i_flags |= S_KERNEL_FILE; cachefiles_open_file cachefiles_mark_inode_in_use __cachefiles_mark_inode_in_use can_use = false if (!(inode->i_flags & S_KERNEL_FILE)) can_use = true return false return false // Returns an error but doesn't put dentry After that the following WARNING will be triggered when the backend folder is umounted: ================================================================== BUG: Dentry 000000008ad87947{i=7a,n=Dx_1_1.img} still in use (1) [unmount of ext4 sda] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 359261 at fs/dcache.c:1767 umount_check+0x5d/0x70 CPU: 4 PID: 359261 Comm: umount Not tainted 6.6.0-dirty #25 RIP: 0010:umount_check+0x5d/0x70 Call Trace: <TASK> d_walk+0xda/0x2b0 do_one_tree+0x20/0x40 shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x2c/0x90 generic_shutdown_super+0x20/0x160 kill_block_super+0x1a/0x40 ext4_kill_sb+0x22/0x40 deactivate_locked_super+0x35/0x80 cleanup_mnt+0x104/0x160 ================================================================== Whether cachefiles_open_file() returns true or false, the reference count obtained by lookup_positive_unlocked() in cachefiles_look_up_object() should be released. Therefore release that reference count in cachefiles_look_up_object() to fix the above issue and simplify the code.
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Linux Linux Affected: 1f08c925e7a38002bde509e66f6f891468848511 , < d32ff64c872d7e08e893c32ba6a2374583444410 (git)
Affected: 1f08c925e7a38002bde509e66f6f891468848511 , < c7d10fa7d7691558ff967668494672415f5fa151 (git)
Affected: 1f08c925e7a38002bde509e66f6f891468848511 , < e4a28489b310339b2b8187bec0a437709be551c1 (git)
Affected: 1f08c925e7a38002bde509e66f6f891468848511 , < 7fa2382f97421978514a419c93054eca69f5247b (git)
Affected: 1f08c925e7a38002bde509e66f6f891468848511 , < da6ef2dffe6056aad3435e6cf7c6471c2a62187c (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.113 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.55 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.14 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.3 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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