CVE-2024-50014: ext4: fix access to uninitialised lock in fc replay path
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix access to uninitialised lock in fc replay path
The following kernel trace can be triggered with fstest generic/629 when
executed against a filesystem with fast-commit feature enabled:
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
you didn't initialize this object before use?
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 0 PID: 866 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.10.0+ #11
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-3-gd478f380-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x66/0x90
register_lock_class+0x759/0x7d0
__lock_acquire+0x85/0x2630
? __find_get_block+0xb4/0x380
lock_acquire+0xd1/0x2d0
? __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0xd5/0x160
_raw_spin_lock+0x33/0x40
? __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0xd5/0x160
__ext4_journal_get_write_access+0xd5/0x160
ext4_reserve_inode_write+0x61/0xb0
__ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x79/0x270
? ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks+0x2f8/0x450
ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks+0x330/0x450
ext4_fc_replay+0x14c8/0x1540
? jread+0x88/0x2e0
? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0x40
do_one_pass+0x447/0xd00
jbd2_journal_recover+0x139/0x1b0
jbd2_journal_load+0x96/0x390
ext4_load_and_init_journal+0x253/0xd40
ext4_fill_super+0x2cc6/0x3180
...
In the replay path there's an attempt to lock sbi->s_bdev_wb_lock in
function ext4_check_bdev_write_error(). Unfortunately, at this point this
spinlock has no...
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2024-50014
Affected Products
Vendor: Linux
Product: Linux
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 5.0% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-03-03 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13ea9547763a0488a90ff37cdf52ec85e36ea344https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e35f560daebe40264c95e9a1ab03110d4997df6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d157fc20ca5239fd56965a5a8aa1a0e25919891a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b002031d585a14eed511117dda8c6452a804d508
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23dfdb56581ad92a9967bcd720c8c23356af74c1