CVE-2024-49959

jbd2: stop waiting for space when jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() returns error

published October 21, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

jbd2: stop waiting for space when jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() returns error

In __jbd2_log_wait_for_space(), we might call jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()

to recover some journal space. But if an error occurs while executing

jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() (e.g., an EIO), we don't stop waiting for free

space right away, we try other branches, and if j_committing_transaction

is NULL (i.e., the tid is 0), we will get the following complain:

============================================

JBD2: I/O error when updating journal superblock for sdd-8.

__jbd2_log_wait_for_space: needed 256 blocks and only had 217 space available

__jbd2_log_wait_for_space: no way to get more journal space in sdd-8

------------[ cut here ]------------

WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 139804 at fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c:109 __jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0x251/0x2e0

Modules linked in:

CPU: 2 PID: 139804 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.6.0+ #1

RIP: 0010:__jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0x251/0x2e0

Call Trace:

<TASK>

add_transaction_credits+0x5d1/0x5e0

start_this_handle+0x1ef/0x6a0

jbd2__journal_start+0x18b/0x340

ext4_dirty_inode+0x5d/0xb0

__mark_inode_dirty+0xe4/0x5d0

generic_update_time+0x60/0x70

[...]

============================================

So only if jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() returns 1, i.e., there is nothing to

clean up at the moment, continue to try to reclaim free space in other ways.

Note that this fix relies on commit 6f6a6fda2945 ("jbd2: fix ocfs2 corrupt

when updating journal superblock fails") to make jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail

return the correct error code.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
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EPSS
0.00257 · 16.5th percentile
Published
2024-10-21T18:02Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 OCT 18:02Z
    jbd2: stop waiting for space when jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() returns error
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