Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
zram: do not forget to endio for partial discard requests
As reported by Qu Wenruo and Avinesh Kumar, the following
getconf PAGESIZE 65536 blkdiscard -p 4k /dev/zram0
takes literally forever to complete. zram doesn’t support partial discards and just returns immediately w/o doing any discard work in such cases. The problem is that we forget to endio on our way out, so blkdiscard sleeps forever in submit_bio_wait(). Fix this by jumping to end_bio label, which does bio_endio().
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 9.6 ESU | Planned | — |
| Debian 13 | Released |
6 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Planned | — |