Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: free inode when ocfs2_get_init_inode() fails
syzbot is reporting busy inodes after unmount, for commit 9c89fe0af826 (“ocfs2: Handle error from dquot_initialize()”) forgot to call iput() when new_inode() succeeded and dquot_initialize() failed.
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 @ 4.4.0 (+7 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: free inode when ocfs2_get_init_inode() fails
syzbot is reporting busy inodes after unmount, for commit 9c89fe0af826 (“ocfs2: Handle error from dquot_initialize()”) forgot to call iput() when new_inode() succeeded and dquot_initialize() failed.