{"id":"CVE-2024-55641","summary":"xfs: unlock inodes when erroring out of xfs_trans_alloc_dir","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: unlock inodes when erroring out of xfs_trans_alloc_dir\n\nDebugging a filesystem patch with generic/475 caused the system to hang\nafter observing the following sequences in dmesg:\n\n XFS (dm-0): metadata I/O error in \"xfs_imap_to_bp+0x61/0xe0 [xfs]\" at daddr 0x491520 len 32 error 5\n XFS (dm-0): metadata I/O error in \"xfs_btree_read_buf_block+0xba/0x160 [xfs]\" at daddr 0x3445608 len 8 error 5\n XFS (dm-0): metadata I/O error in \"xfs_imap_to_bp+0x61/0xe0 [xfs]\" at daddr 0x138e1c0 len 32 error 5\n XFS (dm-0): log I/O error -5\n XFS (dm-0): Metadata I/O Error (0x1) detected at xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x1ea/0x4b0 [xfs] (fs/xfs/xfs_trans_buf.c:311).  Shutting down filesystem.\n XFS (dm-0): Please unmount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)\n XFS (dm-0): Internal error dqp-\u003eq_ino.reserved \u003c dqp-\u003eq_ino.count at line 869 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.c.  Caller xfs_trans_dqresv+0x236/0x440 [xfs]\n XFS (dm-0): Corruption detected. Unmount and run xfs_repair\n XFS (dm-0): Unmounting Filesystem be6bcbcc-9921-4deb-8d16-7cc94e335fa7\n\nThe system is stuck in unmount trying to lock a couple of inodes so that\nthey can be purged.  The dquot corruption notice above is a clue to what\nhappened -- a link() call tried to set up a transaction to link a child\ninto a directory.  Quota reservation for the transaction failed after IO\nerrors shut down the filesystem, but then we forgot to unlock the inodes\non our way out.  Fix that.","modified":"2026-04-02T12:24:05.395917Z","published":"2025-01-11T12:29:56.052Z","related":["USN-7379-2","USN-7380-1"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/55xxx/CVE-2024-55641.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53b001a21c9dff73b64e8c909c41991f01d5d00f"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6aefe5d97ae57b1343dc60d8bb6a4ed070e5bcea"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/55xxx/CVE-2024-55641.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-55641"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"bd5562111d58392298a3c3b93caad71dff681b4b"},{"fixed":"6aefe5d97ae57b1343dc60d8bb6a4ed070e5bcea"},{"fixed":"53b001a21c9dff73b64e8c909c41991f01d5d00f"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-55641.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}