CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47493
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-05-22
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix race between searching chunks and release journal_head from buffer_head
Encountered a race between ocfs2_test_bg_bit_allocatable() and
jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() resulting in the below vmcore.
PID: 106879 TASK: ffff880244ba9c00 CPU: 2 COMMAND: "loop3"
Call trace:
panic
oops_end
no_context
__bad_area_nosemaphore
bad_area_nosemaphore
__do_page_fault
do_page_fault
page_fault
[exception RIP: ocfs2_block_group_find_clear_bits+316]
ocfs2_block_group_find_clear_bits [ocfs2]
ocfs2_cluster_group_search [ocfs2]
ocfs2_search_chain [ocfs2]
ocfs2_claim_suballoc_bits [ocfs2]
__ocfs2_claim_clusters [ocfs2]
ocfs2_claim_clusters [ocfs2]
ocfs2_local_alloc_slide_window [ocfs2]
ocfs2_reserve_local_alloc_bits [ocfs2]
ocfs2_reserve_clusters_with_limit [ocfs2]
ocfs2_reserve_clusters [ocfs2]
ocfs2_lock_refcount_allocators [ocfs2]
ocfs2_make_clusters_writable [ocfs2]
ocfs2_replace_cow [ocfs2]
ocfs2_refcount_cow [ocfs2]
ocfs2_file_write_iter [ocfs2]
lo_rw_aio
loop_queue_work
kthread_worker_fn
kthread
ret_from_fork
When ocfs2_test_bg_bit_allocatable() called bh2jh(bg_bh), the
bg_bh->b_private NULL as jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() raced and
released the jounal head from the buffer head. Needed to take bit lock
for the bit 'BH_JournalHead' to fix this race.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.10.77)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.14.16)
• linux linux kernel 5.15
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e382600e8856ea654677b5134ee66e03ea72bc2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5043fbd294f5909a080ade0f04b70a4da9e122b7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f1b228529ae49b0f85ab89bcdb6c365df401558 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e382600e8856ea654677b5134ee66e03ea72bc2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5043fbd294f5909a080ade0f04b70a4da9e122b7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f1b228529ae49b0f85ab89bcdb6c365df401558 Patch