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Unreviewed Published Jul 12, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 12, 2024

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Patched versions

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Description

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

ocfs2: fix races between hole punching and AIO+DIO

After commit "ocfs2: return real error code in ocfs2_dio_wr_get_block",
fstests/generic/300 become from always failed to sometimes failed:

========================================================================
[ 473.293420 ] run fstests generic/300

[ 475.296983 ] JBD2: Ignoring recovery information on journal
[ 475.302473 ] ocfs2: Mounting device (253,1) on (node local, slot 0) with ordered data mode.
[ 494.290998 ] OCFS2: ERROR (device dm-1): ocfs2_change_extent_flag: Owner 5668 has an extent at cpos 78723 which can no longer be found
[ 494.291609 ] On-disk corruption discovered. Please run fsck.ocfs2 once the filesystem is unmounted.
[ 494.292018 ] OCFS2: File system is now read-only.
[ 494.292224 ] (kworker/19:11,2628,19):ocfs2_mark_extent_written:5272 ERROR: status = -30
[ 494.292602 ] (kworker/19:11,2628,19):ocfs2_dio_end_io_write:2374 ERROR: status = -3
fio: io_u error on file /mnt/scratch/racer: Read-only file system: write offset=460849152, buflen=131072

In __blockdev_direct_IO, ocfs2_dio_wr_get_block is called to add unwritten
extents to a list. extents are also inserted into extent tree in
ocfs2_write_begin_nolock. Then another thread call fallocate to puch a
hole at one of the unwritten extent. The extent at cpos was removed by
ocfs2_remove_extent(). At end io worker thread, ocfs2_search_extent_list
found there is no such extent at the cpos.

T1                        T2                T3
                          inode lock
                            ...
                            insert extents
                            ...
                          inode unlock

ocfs2_fallocate
__ocfs2_change_file_space
inode lock
lock ip_alloc_sem
ocfs2_remove_inode_range inode
ocfs2_remove_btree_range
ocfs2_remove_extent
^---remove the extent at cpos 78723
...
unlock ip_alloc_sem
inode unlock
ocfs2_dio_end_io
ocfs2_dio_end_io_write
lock ip_alloc_sem
ocfs2_mark_extent_written
ocfs2_change_extent_flag
ocfs2_search_extent_list
^---failed to find extent
...
unlock ip_alloc_sem

In most filesystems, fallocate is not compatible with racing with AIO+DIO,
so fix it by adding to wait for all dio before fallocate/punch_hole like
ext4.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 12, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 12, 2024
Last updated Jul 12, 2024

Severity

Unknown

EPSS score

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Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2024-40943

GHSA ID

GHSA-rr6m-3x7m-qjff

Source code

No known source code

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