[SRU B/F/H/I/OEM-5.10/HWE-5.8 0/1] CVE-2021-40490

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at canonical.com
Wed Sep 15 17:28:17 UTC 2021


[Impact]
A race when setting xattrs will cause an OOB write, leading to a crash.

[Test case]
A syzkaller reproducer was used to test it. All fixed kernels pass. The
test also ends up exercising the changed code.

[Potential regression]
ext4 filesystems may be corrupt or system crashes related to ext4 might happen.

Theodore Ts'o (1):
  ext4: fix race writing to an inline_data file while its xattrs are
    changing

 fs/ext4/inline.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

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2.30.2




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