nilfs2: fix potential bug in end_buffer_async_write
According to a syzbot report, end_buffer_async_write(), which handles the
completion of block device writes, may detect abnormal condition of the
buffer async_write flag and cause a BUG_ON failure when using nilfs2.
Nilfs2 itself does not use end_buffer_async_write(). But, the async_write
flag is now used as a marker by commit 7f42ec394156 ("nilfs2: fix issue
with race condition of competition between segments for dirty blocks") as
a means of resolving double list insertion of dirty blocks in
nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() and nilfs_lookup_node_buffers() and the
resulting crash.
This modification is safe as long as it is used for file data and b-tree
node blocks where the page caches are independent. However, it was
irrelevant and redundant to also introduce async_write for segment summary
and super root blocks that share buffers with the backing device. This
led to the possibility that the BUG_ON check in end_buffer_async_write
would fail as described above, if independent writebacks of the backing
device occurred in parallel.
The use of async_write for segment summary buffers has already been
removed in a previous change.
Fix this issue by removing the manipulation of the async_write flag for
the remaining super root block buffer.
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DLA-3842-1 | linux-5.10 security update |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-787 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-11T20:02:13.157Z
Reserved: 2024-02-19T14:20:24.153Z
Link: CVE-2024-26685
Updated: 2024-08-02T00:14:12.823Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2024-04-03T15:15:52.210
Modified: 2025-04-08T15:35:33.103
Link: CVE-2024-26685
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