CVE-2024-42149

Technical Description

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

fs: don't misleadingly warn during thaw operations

The block device may have been frozen before it was claimed by a

filesystem. Concurrently another process might try to mount that

frozen block device and has temporarily claimed the block device for

that purpose causing a concurrent fs_bdev_thaw() to end up here. The

mounter is already about to abort mounting because they still saw an

elevanted bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count so get_bdev_super() will return

NULL in that case.

For example, P1 calls dm_suspend() which calls into bdev_freeze() before

the block device has been claimed by the filesystem. This brings

bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count to 1 and no call into fs_bdev_freeze() is

required.

Now P2 tries to mount that frozen block device. It claims it and checks

bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count. As it's elevated it aborts mounting.

In the meantime P3 called dm_resume(). P3 sees that the block device is

already claimed by a filesystem an

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References