CVE-2024-57976

Medium

Published: —Translated: 07/08/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a proper folio cleanup was fixed in Btrfs when cow_file_range() fails. The issue involved improper handling of dirty pages.

Risk Assessment

Improper cleanup could lead to memory leaks or system crashes during write operations on Btrfs.

Recommendation

Install a Linux kernel update that includes the fix for Btrfs.

Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: do proper folio cleanup when cow_file_range() failed [BUG] When testing with COW fixup marked as BUG_ON() (this is involved with the new pin_user_pages*() change, which should not result new out-of-band dirty pages), I hit