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CVE-2024-48881

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bcache: revert replacing IS_ERR_OR_NULL with IS_ERR again Commit 028ddcac477b ("bcache: Remove unnecessary NULL point check in node allocations") leads a NULL pointer deference in cache_set_flush(). 1721 if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(c->root)) 1722 list_add(&c->root->list, &c->btree_cache); >From the above code in cache_set_flush(), if previous registration code fails before allocating c->root, it is possible c->root is NULL as what it is initialized. __bch_btree_node_alloc() never returns NULL but c->root is possible to be NULL at above line 1721. This patch replaces IS_ERR() by IS_ERR_OR_NULL() to fix this.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 4.19.291 → 4.20
linux linux_kernel · 5.10.188 → 5.10.231
linux linux_kernel · 5.15.121 → 5.15.174
linux linux_kernel · 5.4.251 → 5.4.287
linux linux_kernel · 6.1.39 → 6.1.120
linux linux_kernel · 6.4.4 → 6.6.66
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.5

Analysis

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