CVE-2024-26601 (GCVE-0-2024-26601)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-24 14:56
Modified
2026-08-05 11:26
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: regenerate buddy after block freeing failed if under fc replay This mostly reverts commit 6bd97bf273bd ("ext4: remove redundant mb_regenerate_buddy()") and reintroduces mb_regenerate_buddy(). Based on code in mb_free_blocks(), fast commit replay can end up marking as free blocks that are already marked as such. This causes corruption of the buddy bitmap so we need to regenerate it in that case.
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Impacted products
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Linux Linux Version: 0983142c5f17a62055ec851372273c3bc77e4788
Version: 6bd97bf273bdb4944904e57480f6545bca48ad77
Version: 6bd97bf273bdb4944904e57480f6545bca48ad77
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Version: 6bd97bf273bdb4944904e57480f6545bca48ad77
Version: 6bd97bf273bdb4944904e57480f6545bca48ad77
Version: 5.10.181   ≤
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