CVE-2024-27036

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27036
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-27036.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-27036
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-05-01T12:53:46.721Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:35:22.336830Z
Summary
cifs: Fix writeback data corruption
Details

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

cifs: Fix writeback data corruption

cifs writeback doesn't correctly handle the case where cifsextendwriteback() hits a point where it is considering an additional folio, but this would overrun the wsize - at which point it drops out of the xarray scanning loop and calls xaspause(). The problem is that xaspause() advances the loop counter - thereby skipping that page.

What needs to happen is for xas_reset() to be called any time we decide we don't want to process the page we're looking at, but rather send the request we are building and start a new one.

Fix this by copying and adapting the netfslib writepages code as a temporary measure, with cifs writeback intending to be offloaded to netfslib in the near future.

This also fixes the issue with the use of filemapgetfolios_tag() causing retry of a bunch of pages which the extender already dealt with.

This can be tested by creating, say, a 64K file somewhere not on cifs (otherwise copy-offload may get underfoot), mounting a cifs share with a wsize of 64000, copying the file to it and then comparing the original file and the copy:

    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/64K bs=64k count=1
    mount //192.168.6.1/test /mnt -o user=...,pass=...,wsize=64000
    cp /tmp/64K /mnt/64K
    cmp /tmp/64K /mnt/64K

Without the fix, the cmp fails at position 64000 (or shortly thereafter).

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/27xxx/CVE-2024-27036.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
d08089f649a0cfb2099c8551ac47eef0cc23fdf2
Fixed
e45deec35bf7f1f4f992a707b2d04a8c162f2240
Fixed
65f2ced695982ccd516196d0a9447d85dbe2eed5
Fixed
844b4e132f57f1333dc79feaa035075a096762e4
Fixed
f3dc1bdb6b0b0693562c7c54a6c28bafa608ba3c

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-27036.json"