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- CVE-2024-48881
CVE-2024-48881: bcache: revert replacing IS_ERR_OR_NULL with IS_ERR again
First published: Sat Jan 11 2025(Updated: )
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bcache: revert replacing IS_ERR_OR_NULL with IS_ERR again Commit 028ddcac477b ("bcache: Remove unnecessary NULL point check in node allocations") leads a NULL pointer deference in cache_set_flush(). 1721 if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(c->root)) 1722 list_add(&c->root->list, &c->btree_cache); >From the above code in cache_set_flush(), if previous registration code fails before allocating c->root, it is possible c->root is NULL as what it is initialized. __bch_btree_node_alloc() never returns NULL but c->root is possible to be NULL at above line 1721. This patch replaces IS_ERR() by IS_ERR_OR_NULL() to fix this.
Credit: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Linux kernel |
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Reference Links
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4379c5828492a4c2a651c8f826a01453bd2b80b0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/336e30f32ae7c043fde0f6fa21586ff30bea9fe2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb5fee35bdd18316a84b5f30881a24e1415e1464
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5202391970ffbf81975251b3526b890ba027b715
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc05aa2c0117e20fa25a3c0d915f98b8f2e78667
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e0e913624bcd24f3de414475018d3023f060ee1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2e382ae12a63560fca35050498e19e760adf8c0
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