cifs: Fix writeback data corruption
cifs writeback doesn't correctly handle the case where
cifs_extend_writeback() hits a point where it is considering an additional
folio, but this would overrun the wsize - at which point it drops out of
the xarray scanning loop and calls xas_pause(). The problem is that
xas_pause() advances the loop counter - thereby skipping that page.
What needs to happen is for xas_reset() to be called any time we decide we
don't want to process the page we're looking at, but rather send the
request we are building and start a new one.
Fix this by copying and adapting the netfslib writepages code as a
temporary measure, with cifs writeback intending to be offloaded to
netfslib in the near future.
This also fixes the issue with the use of filemap_get_folios_tag() causing
retry of a bunch of pages which the extender already dealt with.
This can be tested by creating, say, a 64K file somewhere not on cifs
(otherwise copy-offload may get underfoot), mounting a cifs share with a
wsize of 64000, copying the file to it and then comparing the original file
and the copy:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/64K bs=64k count=1
mount //192.168.6.1/test /mnt -o user=...,pass=...,wsize=64000
cp /tmp/64K /mnt/64K
cmp /tmp/64K /mnt/64K
Without the fix, the cmp fails at position 64000 (or shortly thereafter).
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| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6816-1 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6817-1 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6817-2 | Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6817-3 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6878-1 | Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities |
Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:15:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| Weaknesses | CWE-787 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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cvssV3_1
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Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:15:00 +0000
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ssvc
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-11T20:09:10.847Z
Reserved: 2024-02-19T14:20:24.211Z
Link: CVE-2024-27036
Updated: 2024-08-02T00:21:05.930Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2024-05-01T13:15:49.407
Modified: 2025-09-18T16:04:59.340
Link: CVE-2024-27036
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Updated: 2025-07-13T11:30:57Z
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