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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-40998" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:37:39.823Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:24:02.963Z" 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-2024-40998" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40998.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40998" title: "ext4: fix uninitialized ratelimit_state-\u003elock access in __ext4_fill_super()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix uninitialized ratelimit_state-\u003elock access in __ext4_fill_super()\n\nIn the following concurrency we will access the uninitialized rs-\u003elock:\n\next4_fill_super\n ext4_register_sysfs\n // sysfs registered msg_ratelimit_interval_ms\n // Other processes modify rs-\u003einterval to\n // non-zero via msg_ratelimit_interval_ms\n ext4_orphan_cleanup\n ext4_msg(sb, KERN_INFO, \"Errors on filesystem, \"\n __ext4_msg\n ___ratelimit(&(EXT4_SB(sb)-\u003es_msg_ratelimit_state)\n if (!rs-\u003einterval) // do nothing if interval is 0\n return 1;\n raw_spin_trylock_irqsave(&rs-\u003elock, flags)\n raw_spin_trylock(lock)\n _raw_spin_trylock\n __raw_spin_trylock\n spin_acquire(&lock-\u003edep_map, 0, 1, _RET_IP_)\n lock_acquire\n __lock_acquire\n register_lock_class\n assign_lock_key\n dump_stack();\n ratelimit_state_init(&sbi-\u003es_msg_ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10);\n raw_spin_lock_init(&rs-\u003elock);\n // init rs-\u003elock here\n\nand get the following dump_stack:\n\n=========================================================\nINFO: trying to register non-static key.\nThe code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe\nyou didn't initialize this object before use?\nturning off the locking correctness validator.\nCPU: 12 PID: 753 Comm: mount Tainted: G E 6.7.0-rc6-next-20231222 #504\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n dump_stack_lvl+0xc5/0x170\n dump_stack+0x18/0x30\n register_lock_class+0x740/0x7c0\n __lock_acquire+0x69/0x13a0\n lock_acquire+0x120/0x450\n _raw_spin_trylock+0x98/0xd0\n ___ratelimit+0xf6/0x220\n __ext4_msg+0x7f/0x160 [ext4]\n ext4_orphan_cleanup+0x665/0x740 [ext4]\n __ext4_fill_super+0x21ea/0x2b10 [ext4]\n ext4_fill_super+0x14d/0x360 [ext4]\n[...]\n=========================================================\n\nNormally interval is 0 until s_msg_ratelimit_state is initialized, so\n___ratelimit() does nothing. But registering sysfs precedes initializing\nrs-\u003elock, so it is possible to change rs-\u003einterval to a non-zero value\nvia the msg_ratelimit_interval_ms interface of sysfs while rs-\u003elock is\nuninitialized, and then a call to ext4_msg triggers the problem by\naccessing an uninitialized rs-\u003elock. Therefore register sysfs after all\ninitializations are complete to avoid such problems." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"efbed4dc5857f845d787e406ce85097d1ccc5c4f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23afcd52af06880c6c913a0ad99022b8937b575c"},{"version":"efbed4dc5857f845d787e406ce85097d1ccc5c4f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"645267906944a9aeec9d5c56ee24a9096a288798"},{"version":"efbed4dc5857f845d787e406ce85097d1ccc5c4f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4b4fda34e535756f9e774fb2d09c4537b7dfd1c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"},{"version":"6.6.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.7","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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