CVE-2024-42231

Technical Description

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

btrfs: zoned: fix calc_available_free_space() for zoned mode

calc_available_free_space() returns the total size of metadata (or

system) block groups, which can be allocated from unallocated disk

space. The logic is wrong on zoned mode in two places.

First, the calculation of data_chunk_size is wrong. We always allocate

one zone as one chunk, and no partial allocation of a zone. So, we

should use zone_size (= data_sinfo->chunk_size) as it is.

Second, the result "avail" may not be zone aligned. Since we always

allocate one zone as one chunk on zoned mode, returning non-zone size

aligned bytes will result in less pressure on the async metadata reclaim

process.

This is serious for the nearly full state with a large zone size device.

Allowing over-commit too much will result in less async reclaim work and

end up in ENOSPC. We can align down to the zone size to avoid that.

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References