CVE-2024-57941

Technical Description

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

netfs: Fix the (non-)cancellation of copy when cache is temporarily disabled

When the caching for a cookie is temporarily disabled (e.g. due to a DIO

write on that file), future copying to the cache for that file is disabled

until all fds open on that file are closed. However, if netfslib is using

the deprecated PG_private_2 method (such as is currently used by ceph), and

decides it wants to copy to the cache, netfs_advance_write() will just bail

at the first check seeing that the cache stream is unavailable, and

indicate that it dealt with all the content.

This means that we have no subrequests to provide notifications to drive

the state machine or even to pin the request and the request just gets

discarded, leaving the folios with PG_private_2 set.

Fix this by jumping directly to cancel the request if the cache is not

available. That way, we don't remove mark3 from the folio_queue list and

netfs_pgpriv2_cancel(

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