CVE-2024-50265

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: remove entry once instead of null-ptr-dereference in ocfs2_xa_remove()

Syzkaller is able to provoke null-ptr-dereference in ocfs2_xa_remove():

[ 57.319872] (a.out,1161,7):ocfs2_xa_remove:2028 ERROR: status = -12 [ 57.320420] (a.out,1161,7):ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate:1999 ERROR: Partial truncate while removing xattr overlay.upper. Leaking 1 clusters and removing the entry [ 57.321727] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000004 […] [ 57.325727] RIP: 0010:ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x2a/0xc0 […] [ 57.331328] Call Trace: [ 57.331477] […] [ 57.333511] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x3e5/0x740 [ 57.333778] ? exc_page_fault+0x70/0x170 [ 57.334016] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x2b/0x30 [ 57.334263] ? __pfx_ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x10/0x10 [ 57.334596] ? ocfs2_xa_block_wipe_namevalue+0x2a/0xc0 [ 57.334913] ocfs2_xa_remove_entry+0x23/0xc0 [ 57.335164] ocfs2_xa_set+0x704/0xcf0 [ 57.335381] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x40 [ 57.335620] ? ocfs2_inode_cache_unlock+0x16/0x20 [ 57.335915] ? trace_preempt_on+0x1e/0x70 [ 57.336153] ? start_this_handle+0x16c/0x500 [ 57.336410] ? preempt_count_sub+0x50/0x80 [ 57.336656] ? _raw_read_unlock+0x20/0x40 [ 57.336906] ? start_this_handle+0x16c/0x500 [ 57.337162] ocfs2_xattr_block_set+0xa6/0x1e0 [ 57.337424] __ocfs2_xattr_set_handle+0x1fd/0x5d0 [ 57.337706] ? ocfs2_start_trans+0x13d/0x290 [ 57.337971] ocfs2_xattr_set+0xb13/0xfb0 [ 57.338207] ? dput+0x46/0x1c0 [ 57.338393] ocfs2_xattr_trusted_set+0x28/0x30 [ 57.338665] ? ocfs2_xattr_trusted_set+0x28/0x30 [ 57.338948] __vfs_removexattr+0x92/0xc0 [ 57.339182] __vfs_removexattr_locked+0xd5/0x190 [ 57.339456] ? preempt_count_sub+0x50/0x80 [ 57.339705] vfs_removexattr+0x5f/0x100 […]

Reproducer uses faultinject facility to fail ocfs2_xa_remove() -> ocfs2_xa_value_truncate() with -ENOMEM.

In this case the comment mentions that we can return 0 if ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate() is going to wipe the entry anyway. But the following rc check is wrong and execution flow do ocfs2_xa_remove_entry(loc); twice:

• 1st: in ocfs2_xa_cleanup_value_truncate();
• 2nd: returning back to ocfs2_xa_remove() instead of going to out.

Fix this by skipping the 2nd removal of the same entry and making syzkaller repro happy.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b63c0e01fba40e3992bc627272ec7b618ccaef7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/168a9b8303fcb0317db4c06b23ce1c0ce2af4e10
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b5369528ee63c88371816178a05b5e664c87386
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38cbf13b2e7a31362babe411f7c2c3c52cd2734b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a7e6dcf90fe7721d0863067b6ca9a9442134692
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86dd0e8d42828923c68ad506933336bcd6f2317d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcc8fe8c83145041cb6c80cac21f6173a3ff0204
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd73c942eed76a014c7a5597e6926435274d2c4c
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html