GHSA-269X-4F35-GF3H
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-08-17 09:30 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:31In 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.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-42315"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-667"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-08-17T09:15:11Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexfat: fix potential deadlock on __exfat_get_dentry_set\n\nWhen accessing a file with more entries than ES_MAX_ENTRY_NUM, the bh-array\nis allocated in __exfat_get_entry_set. The problem is that the bh-array is\nallocated with GFP_KERNEL. It does not make sense. In the following cases,\na deadlock for sbi-\u003es_lock between the two processes may occur.\n\n CPU0 CPU1\n ---- ----\n kswapd\n balance_pgdat\n lock(fs_reclaim)\n exfat_iterate\n lock(\u0026sbi-\u003es_lock)\n exfat_readdir\n exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry\n exfat_get_dentry_set\n __exfat_get_dentry_set\n kmalloc_array\n ...\n lock(fs_reclaim)\n ...\n evict\n exfat_evict_inode\n lock(\u0026sbi-\u003es_lock)\n\nTo fix this, let\u0027s allocate bh-array with GFP_NOFS.",
"id": "GHSA-269x-4f35-gf3h",
"modified": "2025-11-03T21:31:11Z",
"published": "2024-08-17T09:30:25Z",
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"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html"
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