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CVE-2024-43898
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: sanity check for NULL pointer after ext4_force_shutdown Test case: 2 threads write short inline data to a file. In ext4_page_mkwrite the resulting inline data is converted. Handling ext4_grp_locked_error with description "block bitmap and bg descriptor inconsistent: X vs Y free clusters" calls ext4_force_shutdown. The conversion clears EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA but fails for ext4_destroy_inline_data_nolock and ext4_mark_iloc_dirty due to ext4_forced_shutdown. The restoration of inline data fails for the same reason not setting EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA. Without the flag set a regular process path in ext4_da_write_end follows trying to dereference page folio private pointer that has not been set. The fix calls early return with -EIO error shall the pointer to private be NULL. Sample crash report: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfff800000000004 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000020-0x0000000000000027] Mem abort info: ESR = 0x0000000096000005 EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits SET = 0, FnV = 0 EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault Data abort info: ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005, ISS2 = 0x00000000 CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0 GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0 [dfff800000000004] address between user and kernel address ranges Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 20274 Comm: syz-executor185 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc7-syzkaller-gfda5695d692c #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024 pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : __block_commit_write+0x64/0x2b0 fs/buffer.c:2167 lr : __block_commit_write+0x3c/0x2b0 fs/buffer.c:2160 sp : ffff8000a1957600 x29: ffff8000a1957610 x28: dfff800000000000 x27: ffff0000e30e34b0 x26: 0000000000000000 x25: dfff800000000000 x24: dfff800000000000 x23: fffffdffc397c9e0 x22: 0000000000000020 x21: 0000000000000020 x20: 0000000000000040 x19: fffffdffc397c9c0 x18: 1fffe000367bd196 x17: ffff80008eead000 x16: ffff80008ae89e3c x15: 00000000200000c0 x14: 1fffe0001cbe4e04 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000 x11: 0000000000000001 x10: 0000000000ff0100 x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : 0000000000000004 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000 x5 : fffffdffc397c9c0 x4 : 0000000000000020 x3 : 0000000000000020 x2 : 0000000000000040 x1 : 0000000000000020 x0 : fffffdffc397c9c0 Call trace: __block_commit_write+0x64/0x2b0 fs/buffer.c:2167 block_write_end+0xb4/0x104 fs/buffer.c:2253 ext4_da_do_write_end fs/ext4/inode.c:2955 [inline] ext4_da_write_end+0x2c4/0xa40 fs/ext4/inode.c:3028 generic_perform_write+0x394/0x588 mm/filemap.c:3985 ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x2c0/0x4ec fs/ext4/file.c:299 ext4_file_write_iter+0x188/0x1780 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2110 [inline] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:497 [inline] vfs_write+0x968/0xc3c fs/read_write.c:590 ksys_write+0x15c/0x26c fs/read_write.c:643 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:655 [inline] __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:652 [inline] __arm64_sys_write+0x7c/0x90 fs/read_write.c:652 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:34 [inline] invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:48 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:133 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:152 el0_svc+0x54/0x168 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:712 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xfc arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:730 el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:598 Code: 97f85911 f94002da 91008356 d343fec8 (38796908) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- ---------------- Code disassembly (best guess): 0: 97f85911 bl 0xffffffffffe16444 4: f94002da ldr x26, [x22] 8: 91008356 add x22, x26, #0x20 c: d343fec8 lsr x8, x22, #3 * 10: 38796908 ldrb w8, [x8, x25] <-- trapping instruction
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kernel.org
Date Record Created
20240817 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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