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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 21, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

ntfs3: Change to non-blocking allocation in ntfs_d_hash

CVE-2024-50065

Description

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

ntfs3: Change to non-blocking allocation in ntfs_d_hash

d_hash is done while under "rcu-walk" and should not sleep. __get_name() allocates using GFP_KERNEL, having the possibility to sleep when under memory pressure. Change the allocation to GFP_NOWAIT.

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