CVE-2024-42296

f2fs: fix return value of f2fs_convert_inline_inode()

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Aug 17, 2024
Updated: Aug 5, 2026
Reserved: Jul 30, 2024

Description

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

f2fs: fix return value of f2fs_convert_inline_inode()

If device is readonly, make f2fs_convert_inline_inode() return EROFS instead of zero, otherwise it may trigger panic during writeback of inline inode's dirty page as below:

f2fs_write_single_data_page+0xbb6/0x1e90 fs/f2fs/data.c:2888 f2fs_write_cache_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3187 [inline] __f2fs_write_data_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3342 [inline] f2fs_write_data_pages+0x1efe/0x3a90 fs/f2fs/data.c:3369 do_writepages+0x359/0x870 mm/page-writeback.c:2634 filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x125/0x180 mm/filemap.c:397 __filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:430 [inline] file_write_and_wait_range+0x1aa/0x290 mm/filemap.c:788 f2fs_do_sync_file+0x68a/0x1ae0 fs/f2fs/file.c:276 generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:2806 [inline] f2fs_file_write_iter+0x7bd/0x24e0 fs/f2fs/file.c:4977 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2114 [inline] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:497 [inline] vfs_write+0xa72/0xc90 fs/read_write.c:590 ksys_write+0x1a0/0x2c0 fs/read_write.c:643 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf5/0x240 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Linux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 70f5ef5f33c333cfb286116fa3af74ac9bc84f1bAffected 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 47a8ddcdcaccd9b891db4574795e46a33a121ac2Affected 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 077f0e24b27c4b44841593c7edbd1993be9eecb5Affected 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 1e7725814361c8c008d131db195cef8274ff26b8Affected 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before a8eb3de28e7a365690c61161e7a07a4fc7c60bbfAffected
LinuxLinux	3.8Affected before 3.8Not affected 5.15.165 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.103 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.44 through 6.6.Not affected 6.10.3 through 6.10.Not affected 6.11 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 70f5ef5f33c333cfb286116fa3af74ac9bc84f1bAffected
98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 47a8ddcdcaccd9b891db4574795e46a33a121ac2Affected
98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 077f0e24b27c4b44841593c7edbd1993be9eecb5Affected
98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 1e7725814361c8c008d131db195cef8274ff26b8Affected
98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before a8eb3de28e7a365690c61161e7a07a4fc7c60bbfAffected

LinuxLinux

3.8Affected
before 3.8Not affected
5.15.165 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.103 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.44 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.10.3 through 6.10.*Not affected
6.11 and laterNot affected

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