UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47669: Medium severity ubuntu/linux vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix state management in error path of log writing function After commit a694291a6211 ("nilfs2: separate wait function from nilfssegctorwrite") was applied, the log writing function nilfssegctordoconstruct() was able to issue I/O requests continuously even if user data blocks were split into multiple logs across segments, but two potential flaws were introduced in its error handling. First, if nilfssegctorbeginconstruction() fails while creating the second or subsequent logs, the log writing function returns without calling nilfssegctorabortconstruction(), so the writeback flag set on pages/folios will remain uncleared. This causes page cache operations to hang waiting for the writeback flag. For example, truncateinodepagesfinal(), which is called via nilfsevictinode() when an inode is evicted from memory, will hang. Second, the NILFSICOLLECTED flag set on normal inodes remain uncleared. As a result, if the next log write involves checkpoint creation, that's fine, but if a partial log write is performed that does not, inodes with NILFSICOLLECTED set are erroneously removed from the "scdirtyfiles" list, and their data and b-tree blocks may not be written to the device, corrupting the block mapping. Fix these issues by uniformly calling nilfssegctorabortconstruction() on failure of each step in the loop in nilfssegctordoconstruct(), having it clean up logs and segment usages according to progress, and correcting the conditions for calling nilfsredirtyinodes() to ensure that the NILFSICOLLECTED flag is cleared.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What access and conditions are required to exploit this issue?
The supplied CVSS vector indicates local access, low privileges, no user interaction, and an additional prerequisite condition. The failure occurs in NILFS2 log writing error handling when data spans multiple logs across segments.
Which Ubuntu kernel packages are identified as affected?
The affected software list includes ubuntu/linux, ubuntu/linux-fips, ubuntu/linux-aws, ubuntu/linux-azure, ubuntu/linux-aws-fips, ubuntu/linux-azure-fips, ubuntu/linux-gcp, and ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips.
What operational impact can occur if the vulnerable error path is triggered?
Writeback flags can remain set, causing page-cache operations to hang. In particular, inode eviction can hang while waiting for writeback, and incorrectly retained NILFS_I_COLLECTED state can lead to erroneous inode removal during a later partial log write.