Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: remove unreasonable unlock in ocfs2_read_blocks
Patch series “Misc fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks”, v5.
This series contains 2 fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks(). The first patch fix the issue reported by syzbot, which detects bad unlock balance in ocfs2_read_blocks(). The second patch fixes an issue reported by Heming Zhao when reviewing above fix.
This patch (of 2):
There was a lock release before exiting, so remove the unreasonable unlock.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+8 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: remove unreasonable unlock in ocfs2_read_blocks
Patch series “Misc fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks”, v5.
This series contains 2 fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks(). The first patch fix the issue reported by syzbot, which detects bad unlock balance in ocfs2_read_blocks(). The second patch fixes an issue reported by Heming Zhao when reviewing above fix.
This patch (of 2):
There was a lock release before exiting, so remove the unreasonable unlock.