Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to tag gcing flag on page during block migration
It needs to add missing gcing flag on page during block migration, in order to garantee migrated data be persisted during checkpoint, otherwise out-of-order persistency between data and node may cause data corruption after SPOR.
Similar issue was fixed by commit 2d1fe8a86bf5 (“f2fs: fix to tag gcing flag on page during file defragment”).
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+9 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to tag gcing flag on page during block migration
It needs to add missing gcing flag on page during block migration, in order to garantee migrated data be persisted during checkpoint, otherwise out-of-order persistency between data and node may cause data corruption after SPOR.
Similar issue was fixed by commit 2d1fe8a86bf5 (“f2fs: fix to tag gcing flag on page during file defragment”).