CVE-2020-36775 (GCVE-0-2020-36775)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-26 17:20 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:42
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Title
f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadlock
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadlock Using f2fs_trylock_op() in f2fs_write_compressed_pages() to avoid potential deadlock like we did in f2fs_write_single_data_page().
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Linux Linux Affected: 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 , < 8e8542437bb4070423c9754d5ba270ffdbae8c8d (git)
Affected: 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 , < df77fbd8c5b222c680444801ffd20e8bbc90a56e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.6.7 , ≤ 5.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.7 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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