CVE-2024-50065 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ntfs3: Change to non-blocking allocation in ntfs_d_hash

d_hash is done while under cu-walk\ and should not sleep. __get_name() allocates using GFP_KERNEL having the possibility to sleep when under memory pressure. Change the allocation to GFP_NOWAIT.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c556e72cea2a1131ae418be017dd6fc76fffe2fb https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0c710372e238510db08ea01e7b8bd81ed995dd6 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/589996bf8c459deb5bbc9747d8f1c51658608103