cve-2024-49965
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-21 18:02
Modified
2024-12-19 09:30
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: remove unreasonable unlock in ocfs2_read_blocks Patch series "Misc fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks", v5. This series contains 2 fixes for ocfs2_read_blocks(). The first patch fix the issue reported by syzbot, which detects bad unlock balance in ocfs2_read_blocks(). The second patch fixes an issue reported by Heming Zhao when reviewing above fix. This patch (of 2): There was a lock release before exiting, so remove the unreasonable unlock.
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Linux Linux Version: 6c150df9c2e80b5cf86f5a0d98beb7390ad63bfc
Version: cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687
Version: cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687
Version: cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687
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Version: cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687
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Version: cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687
Version: cf76c78595ca87548ca5e45c862ac9e0949c4687
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