cvelist/2024/42xxx/CVE-2024-42315.json

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                "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexfat: fix potential deadlock on __exfat_get_dentry_set\n\nWhen accessing a file with more entries than ES_MAX_ENTRY_NUM, the bh-array\nis allocated in __exfat_get_entry_set. The problem is that the bh-array is\nallocated with GFP_KERNEL. It does not make sense. In the following cases,\na deadlock for sbi->s_lock between the two processes may occur.\n\n       CPU0                CPU1\n       ----                ----\n  kswapd\n   balance_pgdat\n    lock(fs_reclaim)\n                      exfat_iterate\n                       lock(&sbi->s_lock)\n                       exfat_readdir\n                        exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry\n                         exfat_get_dentry_set\n                          __exfat_get_dentry_set\n                           kmalloc_array\n                            ...\n                            lock(fs_reclaim)\n    ...\n    evict\n     exfat_evict_inode\n      lock(&sbi->s_lock)\n\nTo fix this, let's allocate bh-array with GFP_NOFS."
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