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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

tmpfs: fix race on handling dquot rbtree

CVE-2024-27058

Description

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

tmpfs: fix race on handling dquot rbtree

A syzkaller reproducer found a race while attempting to remove dquot information from the rb tree.

Fetching the rb_tree root node must also be protected by the dqopt->dqio_sem, otherwise, giving the right timing, shmem_release_dquot() will trigger a warning because it couldn't find a node in the tree, when the real reason was the root node changing before the search starts:

Thread 1 Thread 2 - shmem_release_dquot() - shmem_{acquire,release}_dquot()

  • fetch ROOT - Fetch ROOT
  • acquire dqio_sem
  • wait dqio_sem
  • do something, triger a tree rebalance
  • release dqio_sem

- acquire dqio_sem - start searching for the node, but from the wrong location, missing the node, and triggering a warning.

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