CVE-2024-42078 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: initialise nfsd_info.mutex early.

nfsd_info.mutex can be dereferenced by svc_pool_stats_start() immediately after the new netns is created. Currently this can trigger an oops.

Move the initialisation earlier before it can possibly be dereferenced.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e8b94045bc77ce4f085ddfb9eb04e5760e66169 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0011bca603c101f2a3c007bdb77f7006fa78fb1