CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-56755
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-12-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfs/fscache: Add a memory barrier for FSCACHE_VOLUME_CREATING
In fscache_create_volume(), there is a missing memory barrier between the
bit-clearing operation and the wake-up operation. This may cause a
situation where, after a wake-up, the bit-clearing operation hasn't been
detected yet, leading to an indefinite wait. The triggering process is as
follows:
[cookie1] [cookie2] [volume_work]
fscache_perform_lookup
fscache_create_volume
fscache_perform_lookup
fscache_create_volume
fscache_create_volume_work
cachefiles_acquire_volume
clear_and_wake_up_bit
test_and_set_bit
test_and_set_bit
goto maybe_wait
goto no_wait
In the above process, cookie1 and cookie2 has the same volume. When cookie1
enters the -no_wait- process, it will clear the bit and wake up the waiting
process. If a barrier is missing, it may cause cookie2 to remain in the
-wait- process indefinitely.
In commit 3288666c7256 ("fscache: Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in
fscache_create_volume_work()"), barriers were added to similar operations
in fscache_create_volume_work(), but fscache_create_volume() was missed.
By combining the clear and wake operations into clear_and_wake_up_bit() to
fix this issue.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.17 < 6.1.120)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.64)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22f9400a6f3560629478e0a64247b8fcc811a24d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/539fabba965e119b98066fc6ba5257b5eaf4eda2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8beb682cc9a0798a280bbb95e3e41617237090b2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cc1df3113cb71a0df2c46dd5b102c9e11c8a8c6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddab02607eed9e415dc62fde421d4329e5345315 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org