Vulnerability CVE-2024-42296
Published: 2024-08-17

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

f2fs: fix return value of f2fs_convert_inline_inode()

If device is readonly, make f2fs_convert_inline_inode()
return EROFS instead of zero, otherwise it may trigger
panic during writeback of inline inode's dirty page as
below:

f2fs_write_single_data_page+0xbb6/0x1e90 fs/f2fs/data.c:2888
f2fs_write_cache_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3187 [inline]
__f2fs_write_data_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3342 [inline]
f2fs_write_data_pages+0x1efe/0x3a90 fs/f2fs/data.c:3369
do_writepages+0x359/0x870 mm/page-writeback.c:2634
filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x125/0x180 mm/filemap.c:397
__filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:430 [inline]
file_write_and_wait_range+0x1aa/0x290 mm/filemap.c:788
f2fs_do_sync_file+0x68a/0x1ae0 fs/f2fs/file.c:276
generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:2806 [inline]
f2fs_file_write_iter+0x7bd/0x24e0 fs/f2fs/file.c:4977
call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2114 [inline]
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:497 [inline]
vfs_write+0xa72/0xc90 fs/read_write.c:590
ksys_write+0x1a0/0x2c0 fs/read_write.c:643
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf5/0x240 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47a8ddcdcaccd9b891db4574795e46a33a121ac2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/077f0e24b27c4b44841593c7edbd1993be9eecb5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e7725814361c8c008d131db195cef8274ff26b8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8eb3de28e7a365690c61161e7a07a4fc7c60bbf
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