CVE-2024-47736

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Deadlock via Overlapped Pclusters

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erofs: handle overlapped pclusters out of crafted images properly syzbot reported a task hang issue due to a deadlock case where it is waiting for the folio lock of a cached folio that will be used for cache I/Os. After looking into the crafted fuzzed image, I found it's formed with several overlapped big pclusters as below: Ext: logical offset | length : physical offset | length 0: 0.. 16384 | 16384 : 151552.. 167936 | 16384 1: 16384.. 32768 | 16384 : 155648.. 172032 | 16384 2: 32768.. 49152 | 16384 : 537223168.. 537239552 | 16384 ... Here, extent 0/1 are physically overlapped although it's entirely _impossible_ for normal filesystem images generated by mkfs. First, managed folios containing compressed data will be marked as up-to-date and then unlocked immediately (unlike in-place folios) when compressed I/Os are complete. If physical blocks are not submitted in the incremental order, there should be separate BIOs to avoid dependency issues. However, the current code mis-arranges z_erofs_fill_bio_vec() and BIO submission which causes unexpected BIO waits. Second, managed folios will be connected to their own pclusters for efficient inter-queries. However, this is somewhat hard to implement easily if overlapped big pclusters exist. Again, these only appear in fuzzed images so let's simply fall back to temporary short-lived pages for correctness. Additionally, it justifies that referenced managed folios cannot be truncated for now and reverts part of commit 2080ca1ed3e4 ("erofs: tidy up `struct z_erofs_bvec`") for simplicity although it shouldn't be any difference.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 0.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (16)
linux/Kernel 5.13.0 - 6.6.72linux
linux/Kernel 6.11.0 - 6.11.2linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.13linux
Linux/Linux < 5.13
Linux/Linux 5.13
Linux/Linux 6.1.168 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.10.13 - 6.10.*
Linux/Linux 6.11.2 - 6.11.*
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.6.72 - 6.6.*
... and 6 more
Published Oct 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026