CVE-2024-57927

nfs: Fix oops in nfs_netfs_init_request() when copying to cache

Medium · published January 19, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

nfs: Fix oops in nfs_netfs_init_request() when copying to cache

When netfslib wants to copy some data that has just been read on behalf of

nfs, it creates a new write request and calls nfs_netfs_init_request() to

initialise it, but with a NULL file pointer. This causes

nfs_file_open_context() to oops - however, we don't actually need the nfs

context as we're only going to write to the cache.

Fix this by just returning if we aren't given a file pointer and emit a

warning if the request was for something other than copy-to-cache.

Further, fix nfs_netfs_free_request() so that it doesn't try to free the

context if the pointer is NULL.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00173 · 6.4th percentile
Published
2025-01-19T11:52Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JAN 11:52Z
    nfs: Fix oops in nfs_netfs_init_request() when copying to cache
    cvelistv5