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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-40943" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:25:17.813Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:34:09.554Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40943" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40943.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40943" title: "ocfs2: fix races between hole punching and AIO+DIO" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocfs2: fix races between hole punching and AIO+DIO\n\nAfter commit \"ocfs2: return real error code in ocfs2_dio_wr_get_block\",\nfstests/generic/300 become from always failed to sometimes failed:\n\n========================================================================\n[ 473.293420 ] run fstests generic/300\n\n[ 475.296983 ] JBD2: Ignoring recovery information on journal\n[ 475.302473 ] ocfs2: Mounting device (253,1) on (node local, slot 0) with ordered data mode.\n[ 494.290998 ] OCFS2: ERROR (device dm-1): ocfs2_change_extent_flag: Owner 5668 has an extent at cpos 78723 which can no longer be found\n[ 494.291609 ] On-disk corruption discovered. Please run fsck.ocfs2 once the filesystem is unmounted.\n[ 494.292018 ] OCFS2: File system is now read-only.\n[ 494.292224 ] (kworker/19:11,2628,19):ocfs2_mark_extent_written:5272 ERROR: status = -30\n[ 494.292602 ] (kworker/19:11,2628,19):ocfs2_dio_end_io_write:2374 ERROR: status = -3\nfio: io_u error on file /mnt/scratch/racer: Read-only file system: write offset=460849152, buflen=131072\n=========================================================================\n\nIn __blockdev_direct_IO, ocfs2_dio_wr_get_block is called to add unwritten\nextents to a list. extents are also inserted into extent tree in\nocfs2_write_begin_nolock. Then another thread call fallocate to puch a\nhole at one of the unwritten extent. The extent at cpos was removed by\nocfs2_remove_extent(). At end io worker thread, ocfs2_search_extent_list\nfound there is no such extent at the cpos.\n\n T1 T2 T3\n inode lock\n ...\n insert extents\n ...\n inode unlock\nocfs2_fallocate\n __ocfs2_change_file_space\n inode lock\n lock ip_alloc_sem\n ocfs2_remove_inode_range inode\n ocfs2_remove_btree_range\n ocfs2_remove_extent\n ^---remove the extent at cpos 78723\n ...\n unlock ip_alloc_sem\n inode unlock\n ocfs2_dio_end_io\n ocfs2_dio_end_io_write\n lock ip_alloc_sem\n ocfs2_mark_extent_written\n ocfs2_change_extent_flag\n ocfs2_search_extent_list\n ^---failed to find extent\n ...\n unlock ip_alloc_sem\n\nIn most filesystems, fallocate is not compatible with racing with AIO+DIO,\nso fix it by adding to wait for all dio before fallocate/punch_hole like\next4." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b25801038da5823bba1b5440a57ca68afc51b6bd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c26b5d21b1239e9c7fd31ba7d9b2d7bdbaa68d9"},{"version":"b25801038da5823bba1b5440a57ca68afc51b6bd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8e2db1adac47970a6a9225f3858e9aa0e86287f"},{"version":"b25801038da5823bba1b5440a57ca68afc51b6bd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"050ce8af6838c71e872e982b50d3f1bec21da40e"},{"version":"b25801038da5823bba1b5440a57ca68afc51b6bd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"38825ff9da91d2854dcf6d9ac320a7e641e10f25"},{"version":"b25801038da5823bba1b5440a57ca68afc51b6bd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea042dc2bea19d72e37c298bf65a9c341ef3fff3"},{"version":"b25801038da5823bba1b5440a57ca68afc51b6bd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c361f313d696df72f9bccf058510e9ec737b9b1"},{"version":"b25801038da5823bba1b5440a57ca68afc51b6bd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"117b9c009b72a6c2ebfd23484354dfee2d9570d2"},{"version":"b25801038da5823bba1b5440a57ca68afc51b6bd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"952b023f06a24b2ad6ba67304c4c84d45bea2f18"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.23","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.23"},{"version":"4.19.317","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.279","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.162","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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