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Red Hat: CVE-2024-26601: kernel: ext4: regenerate buddy after block freeing failed if under fc replay (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2024-26601: kernel: ext4: regenerate buddy after block freeing failed if under fc replay (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/26/2024
Created
09/14/2024
Added
09/13/2024
Modified
12/05/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: regenerate buddy after block freeing failed if under fc replay This mostly reverts commit 6bd97bf273bd ("ext4: remove redundant mb_regenerate_buddy()") and reintroduces mb_regenerate_buddy(). Based on code in mb_free_blocks(), fast commit replay can end up marking as free blocks that are already marked as such. This causes corruption of the buddy bitmap so we need to regenerate it in that case.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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