CVE-2021-47114

ocfs2: fix data corruption by fallocate

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Mar 15, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Mar 4, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: fix data corruption by fallocate

When fallocate punches holes out of inode size, if original isize is in the middle of last cluster, then the part from isize to the end of the cluster will be zeroed with buffer write, at that time isize is not yet updated to match the new size, if writeback is kicked in, it will invoke ocfs2_writepage()->block_write_full_page() where the pages out of inode size will be dropped. That will cause file corruption. Fix this by zero out eof blocks when extending the inode size.

Running the following command with qemu-image 4.2.1 can get a corrupted coverted image file easily.

qemu-img convert -p -t none -T none -f qcow2 $qcow_image \ -O qcow2 -o compat=1.1 $qcow_image.conv

The usage of fallocate in qemu is like this, it first punches holes out of inode size, then extend the inode size.

fallocate(11, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE|FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, 2276196352, 65536) = 0 fallocate(11, 0, 2276196352, 65536) = 0

v1: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg193999.html v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210525093034.GB4112@quack2.suse.cz/T/

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 385820a38d5e7c70b20af4d68767b1920b1e4133 to before 624fa7baa3788dc9e57840ba5b94bc22b03cda57Affected
  • 385820a38d5e7c70b20af4d68767b1920b1e4133 to before 33e03adafb29eedae1bae9cdb50c1385279fcf65Affected
  • 385820a38d5e7c70b20af4d68767b1920b1e4133 to before a1700479524bb9cb5e8ae720236a6fabd003acaeAffected
  • 385820a38d5e7c70b20af4d68767b1920b1e4133 to before cec4e857ffaa8c447f51cd8ab4e72350077b6770Affected
  • 385820a38d5e7c70b20af4d68767b1920b1e4133 to before cc2edb99ea606a45182b5ea38cc8f4e583aa0774Affected
  • 385820a38d5e7c70b20af4d68767b1920b1e4133 to before c8d5faee46242c3f33b8a71a4d7d52214785bfccAffected
  • 385820a38d5e7c70b20af4d68767b1920b1e4133 to before 0a31dd6fd2f4e7db538fb6eb1f06973d81f8dd3bAffected
  • 385820a38d5e7c70b20af4d68767b1920b1e4133 to before 6bba4471f0cc1296fe3c2089b9e52442d3074b2eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.23Affected
  • before 2.6.23Not affected
  • 4.4.272 through 4.4.*Not affected
  • 4.9.272 through 4.9.*Not affected
  • 4.14.236 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.194 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.125 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.43 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.12.10 through 5.12.*Not affected
  • 5.13 and laterNot affected

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