Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix buffer head management in ocfs2_read_blocks()
In ocfs2_read_blocks(), caller should’t assume that buffer head returned by ‘sb_getblk()’ is exclusively owned and so ‘put_bh()’ always drops b_count from 1 to 0. If it is not so, buffer head remains on hold and likely to be returned by the next call to ‘sb_getblk()’ unchanged - that is, with BH_Uptodate bit set even if it has failed validation previously, thus allowing to insert that buffer head into OCFS2 metadata cache and submit it to upper layers. To avoid such a scenario, BH_Uptodate should be cleared immediately after ‘validate()’ callback has detected some data inconsistency.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 5.10.259 (+6 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 13 | Released |
13 kernels
|
| Proxmox VE 7 5.15 | Released |
47 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE AWS | Released |
57 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Released |
102 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 AWS | Released |
93 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 Azure | Released |
83 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 AWS | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 | In Rollout |
2 kernels
|