CVE-2024-49965

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue concerns an unreasonable unlock in the ocfs2 read blocks() function. It was detected by syzbot, which reported a bad unlock balance. A patch series, "Misc fixes for ocfs2 read blocks", version 5, was created to address this issue, containing two fixes. The first patch resolves the issue reported by syzbot, and the second patch fixes an issue found by Heming Zhao during the review of the first fix. The problem was caused by a lock release before exiting, which has been removed.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.