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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 17, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

exfat: fix potential deadlock on __exfat_get_dentry_set

CVE-2024-42315

Description

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

exfat: fix potential deadlock on __exfat_get_dentry_set

When accessing a file with more entries than ES_MAX_ENTRY_NUM, the bh-array is allocated in __exfat_get_entry_set. The problem is that the bh-array is allocated with GFP_KERNEL. It does not make sense. In the following cases, a deadlock for sbi->s_lock between the two processes may occur.

CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- kswapd balance_pgdat lock(fs_reclaim) exfat_iterate lock(&sbi->s_lock) exfat_readdir exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry exfat_get_dentry_set __exfat_get_dentry_set kmalloc_array ... lock(fs_reclaim) ... evict exfat_evict_inode lock(&sbi->s_lock)

To fix this, let's allocate bh-array with GFP_NOFS.

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