{ "schema_version": "1.6.1", "id": "RPI-CVE-2024-26868", "modified": "2026-10-07T17:22:01Z", "upstream": [ "CVE-2024-26868" ], "published": "2024-04-17T10:29:01Z", "summary": "nfs: fix panic when nfs4_ff_layout_prepare_ds() fails", "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfs: fix panic when nfs4_ff_layout_prepare_ds() fails\n\nWe've been seeing the following panic in production\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000065\nPGD 2f485f067 P4D 2f485f067 PUD 2cc5d8067 PMD 0\nRIP: 0010:ff_layout_cancel_io+0x3a/0x90 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\nCall Trace:\n \n ? __die+0x78/0xc0\n ? page_fault_oops+0x286/0x380\n ? __rpc_execute+0x2c3/0x470 [sunrpc]\n ? rpc_new_task+0x42/0x1c0 [sunrpc]\n ? exc_page_fault+0x5d/0x110\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n ? ff_layout_free_layoutreturn+0x110/0x110 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n ? ff_layout_cancel_io+0x3a/0x90 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n ? ff_layout_cancel_io+0x6f/0x90 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n pnfs_mark_matching_lsegs_return+0x1b0/0x360 [nfsv4]\n pnfs_error_mark_layout_for_return+0x9e/0x110 [nfsv4]\n ? ff_layout_send_layouterror+0x50/0x160 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n nfs4_ff_layout_prepare_ds+0x11f/0x290 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n ff_layout_pg_init_write+0xf0/0x1f0 [nfs_layout_flexfiles]\n __nfs_pageio_add_request+0x154/0x6c0 [nfs]\n nfs_pageio_add_request+0x26b/0x380 [nfs]\n nfs_do_writepage+0x111/0x1e0 [nfs]\n nfs_writepages_callback+0xf/0x30 [nfs]\n write_cache_pages+0x17f/0x380\n ? nfs_pageio_init_write+0x50/0x50 [nfs]\n ? nfs_writepages+0x6d/0x210 [nfs]\n ? nfs_writepages+0x6d/0x210 [nfs]\n nfs_writepages+0x125/0x210 [nfs]\n do_writepages+0x67/0x220\n ? generic_perform_write+0x14b/0x210\n filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x5b/0x80\n file_write_and_wait_range+0x6d/0xc0\n nfs_file_fsync+0x81/0x170 [nfs]\n ? nfs_file_mmap+0x60/0x60 [nfs]\n __x64_sys_fsync+0x53/0x90\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nInspecting the core with drgn I was able to pull this\n\n >>> prog.crashed_thread().stack_trace()[0]\n #0 at 0xffffffffa079657a (ff_layout_cancel_io+0x3a/0x84) in ff_layout_cancel_io at fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c:2021:27\n >>> prog.crashed_thread().stack_trace()[0]['idx']\n (u32)1\n >>> prog.crashed_thread().stack_trace()[0]['flseg'].mirror_array[1].mirror_ds\n (struct nfs4_ff_layout_ds *)0xffffffffffffffed\n\nThis is clear from the stack trace, we call nfs4_ff_layout_prepare_ds()\nwhich could error out initializing the mirror_ds, and then we go to\nclean it all up and our check is only for if (!mirror->mirror_ds). This\nis inconsistent with the rest of the users of mirror_ds, which have\n\n if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mirror_ds))\n\nto keep from tripping over this exact scenario. Fix this up in\nff_layout_cancel_io() to make sure we don't panic when we get an error.\nI also spot checked all the other instances of checking mirror_ds and we\nappear to be doing the correct checks everywhere, only unconditionally\ndereferencing mirror_ds when we know it would be valid.", "affected": [ { "package": { "ecosystem": "Raspberry Pi OS:12", "name": "linux" }, "versions": [ "1:6.1.21-1+rpt1", "1:6.1.47-1+rpt2", "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4", "1:6.1.54-1+rpt2", "1:6.1.58-1+rpt2", "1:6.1.63-1+rpt1", "1:6.1.73-1+rpt1", "1:6.6.20-1+rpt1" ], "ecosystem_specific": { "binaries": [ { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi1-rpi-v6", "binary_version": "1:6.1.21-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi1-rpi-v7", "binary_version": "1:6.1.21-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi1-rpi-v7l", "binary_version": "1:6.1.21-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi1-rpi-v8", "binary_version": "1:6.1.21-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi2-rpi-v6", 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