| Sažetak |
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: fix crash after fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks() error
The function move_dirty_folio_in_page_array() was created by commit
ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce ceph_process_folio_batch() method") by
moving code from ceph_writepages_start() to this function.
This new function is supposed to return an error code which is checked
by the caller (now ceph_process_folio_batch()), and on error, the
caller invokes redirty_page_for_writepage() and then breaks from the
loop.
However, the refactoring commit has gone wrong, and it by accident, it
always returns 0 (= success) because it first NULLs the pointer and
then returns PTR_ERR(NULL) which is always 0. This means errors are
silently ignored, leaving NULL entries in the page array, which may
later crash the kernel.
The simple solution is to call PTR_ERR() before clearing the pointer. |
