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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 9, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

nilfs2: fix kernel bug due to missing clearing of checked flag

CVE-2024-50230

Description

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

nilfs2: fix kernel bug due to missing clearing of checked flag

Syzbot reported that in directory operations after nilfs2 detects filesystem corruption and degrades to read-only, __block_write_begin_int(), which is called to prepare block writes, may fail the BUG_ON check for accesses exceeding the folio/page size, triggering a kernel bug.

This was found to be because the "checked" flag of a page/folio was not cleared when it was discarded by nilfs2's own routine, which causes the sanity check of directory entries to be skipped when the directory page/folio is reloaded. So, fix that.

This was necessary when the use of nilfs2's own page discard routine was applied to more than just metadata files.

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