From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@kernel.org>
Cc: cve@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2024-26904: btrfs: fix data race at btrfs_use_block_rsv() when accessing block reserve
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 09:05:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024052155-raking-onshore-f6f3@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zkt48ug3KKOTQk42@debian0.Home>
On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 05:23:14PM +0100, Filipe Manana wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:29:19PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Description
> > ===========
> >
> > In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> >
> > btrfs: fix data race at btrfs_use_block_rsv() when accessing block reserve
>
> May I ask why is this classified a CVE?
>
> How can a malicious user exploit this to do something harmful?
>
> The race was solved to silence KCSAN warnings, as from time to time we have
> someone reporting it, but other than that, it should be harmless.
Oops, you are right, the line "BUG:" triggered our review to tag this as
a CVE. I'll go reject it now, thanks for the review.
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-17 10:29 CVE-2024-26904: btrfs: fix data race at btrfs_use_block_rsv() when accessing block reserve Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-05-20 16:23 ` Filipe Manana
2024-05-21 7:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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