FKIE_CVE-2021-46945

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-02-27 19:04 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:15
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 ("ext4: make ext4_abort() use __ext4_error()"), the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sda -o remount,abort test After commit 014c9caa29d3, remounting a file system using the test mount option "abort" will no longer trigger a panic. This commit will restore the behaviour immediately before commit 014c9caa29d3. (However, note that the Linux kernel's behavior has not been consistent; some previous kernel versions, including 5.4 and 4.19 similarly did not panic after using the mount option "abort".) This also makes a change to long-standing behaviour; namely, the following series commands will now cause a panic, when previously it did not: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. echo test > /sys/fs/ext4/sda/trigger_fs_error However, this makes ext4's behaviour much more consistent, so this is a good thing.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e9ea8f4637026b8e965128953f2da061ccae9c4Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64e1eebe2131183174f4fbb6b1491355f96c6cdePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac2f7ca51b0929461ea49918f27c11b680f28995Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e9ea8f4637026b8e965128953f2da061ccae9c4Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64e1eebe2131183174f4fbb6b1491355f96c6cdePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac2f7ca51b0929461ea49918f27c11b680f28995Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: always panic when errors=panic is specified\n\nBefore commit 014c9caa29d3 (\"ext4: make ext4_abort() use\n__ext4_error()\"), the following series of commands would trigger a\npanic:\n\n1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test\n2. mount /dev/sda -o remount,abort test\n\nAfter commit 014c9caa29d3, remounting a file system using the test\nmount option \"abort\" will no longer trigger a panic.  This commit will\nrestore the behaviour immediately before commit 014c9caa29d3.\n(However, note that the Linux kernel\u0027s behavior has not been\nconsistent; some previous kernel versions, including 5.4 and 4.19\nsimilarly did not panic after using the mount option \"abort\".)\n\nThis also makes a change to long-standing behaviour; namely, the\nfollowing series commands will now cause a panic, when previously it\ndid not:\n\n1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test\n2. echo test \u003e /sys/fs/ext4/sda/trigger_fs_error\n\nHowever, this makes ext4\u0027s behaviour much more consistent, so this is\na good thing."
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