Vulnerability · Published Jan 21, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-57942netfs: Fix ceph copy to cache on write-begin

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 7% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 92.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix ceph copy to cache on write-begin At the end of netfs_unlock_read_folio() in which folios are marked appropriately for copying to the cache (either with by being marked dirty and having their private data set or by having PG_private_2 set) and then unlocked, the folio_queue struct has the entry pointing to the folio cleared. This presents a problem for netfs_pgpriv2_write_to_the_cache(), which is used to write folios marked with PG_private_2 to the cache as it expects to be able to trawl the folio_queue list thereafter to find the relevant folios, leading to a hang. Fix this by not clearing the folio_queue entry if we're going to do the deprecated copy-to-cache. The clearance will be done instead as the folios are written to the cache. This can be reproduced by starting cachefiles, mounting a ceph filesystem with "-o fsc" and writing to it.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:10kernel6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-devel6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-modules6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-modules-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-devel6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-devel-matched6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-modules6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-modules-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-64k-modules-extra6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-abi-stablelists6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-cross-headers6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-devel6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-devel-matched6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-modules6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-modules-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-modules-extra6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-debug-uki-virt6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-devel6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-devel-matched6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-doc6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-headers6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-modules6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-modules-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-modules-extra6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-modules-extra-matched6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-extra6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-devel6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-modules6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-modules-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug-devel6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug-modules6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug-modules-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-devel6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-modules6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-modules-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-rt-modules-extra6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-tools6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-tools-libs6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-tools-libs-devel6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-uki-virt6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-uki-virt-addons6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-devel6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-modules6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10libperf6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10perf6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10python3-perf6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10rtla6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
AlmaLinux:10rv6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1ALSA-2025:20095
Debian:13linux6.12.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57942
Debian:14linux6.12.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57942
Rocky Linux:10kernel0:6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1RLSA-2025:20095
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57942

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e – before 43b8d3249b0b71bad239d42dbe08ce6c938ba000ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e – before 38cf8e945721ffe708fa675507465da7f4f2a9f7
Linux Linux 6.12

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