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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 17, 2024· Updated Jan 5, 2026

block: Fix WARNING in _copy_from_iter

CVE-2024-26844

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

block: Fix WARNING in _copy_from_iter

Syzkaller reports a warning in _copy_from_iter because an iov_iter is supposedly used in the wrong direction. The reason is that syzcaller managed to generate a request with a transfer direction of SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV. This instructs the kernel to copy user buffers into the kernel, read into the copied buffers and then copy the data back to user space.

Thus the iovec is used in both directions.

Detect this situation in the block layer and construct a new iterator with the correct direction for the copy-in.

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