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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-45000"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-09-04T19:54:44.273Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:37:37.373Z"
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-2024-45000"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-45000.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45000"
title: "fs/netfs/fscache_cookie: add missing \"n_accesses\" check"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/netfs/fscache_cookie: add missing \"n_accesses\" check\n\nThis fixes a NULL pointer dereference bug due to a data race which\nlooks like this:\n\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008\n  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n  PGD 0 P4D 0\n  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n  CPU: 33 PID: 16573 Comm: kworker/u97:799 Not tainted 6.8.7-cm4all1-hp+ #43\n  Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9/ProLiant DL380 Gen9, BIOS P89 10/17/2018\n  Workqueue: events_unbound netfs_rreq_write_to_cache_work\n  RIP: 0010:cachefiles_prepare_write+0x30/0xa0\n  Code: 57 41 56 45 89 ce 41 55 49 89 cd 41 54 49 89 d4 55 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 48 8b 47 08 48 83 7f 10 00 48 89 34 24 48 8b 68 20 \u003c48\u003e 8b 45 08 4c 8b 38 74 45 49 8b 7f 50 e8 4e a9 b0 ff 48 8b 73 10\n  RSP: 0018:ffffb4e78113bde0 EFLAGS: 00010286\n  RAX: ffff976126be6d10 RBX: ffff97615cdb8438 RCX: 0000000000020000\n  RDX: ffff97605e6c4c68 RSI: ffff97605e6c4c60 RDI: ffff97615cdb8438\n  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000278333 R09: 0000000000000001\n  R10: ffff97605e6c4600 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff97605e6c4c68\n  R13: 0000000000020000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff976064fe2c00\n  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9776dfd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n  CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 000000005942c002 CR4: 00000000001706f0\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   ? __die+0x1f/0x70\n   ? page_fault_oops+0x15d/0x440\n   ? search_module_extables+0xe/0x40\n   ? fixup_exception+0x22/0x2f0\n   ? exc_page_fault+0x5f/0x100\n   ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n   ? cachefiles_prepare_write+0x30/0xa0\n   netfs_rreq_write_to_cache_work+0x135/0x2e0\n   process_one_work+0x137/0x2c0\n   worker_thread+0x2e9/0x400\n   ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n   kthread+0xcc/0x100\n   ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n   ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50\n   ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30\n   \u003c/TASK\u003e\n  Modules linked in:\n  CR2: 0000000000000008\n  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nThis happened because fscache_cookie_state_machine() was slow and was\nstill running while another process invoked fscache_unuse_cookie();\nthis led to a fscache_cookie_lru_do_one() call, setting the\nFSCACHE_COOKIE_DO_LRU_DISCARD flag, which was picked up by\nfscache_cookie_state_machine(), withdrawing the cookie via\ncachefiles_withdraw_cookie(), clearing cookie-\u003ecache_priv.\n\nAt the same time, yet another process invoked\ncachefiles_prepare_write(), which found a NULL pointer in this code\nline:\n\n  struct cachefiles_object *object = cachefiles_cres_object(cres);\n\nThe next line crashes, obviously:\n\n  struct cachefiles_cache *cache = object-\u003evolume-\u003ecache;\n\nDuring cachefiles_prepare_write(), the \"n_accesses\" counter is\nnon-zero (via fscache_begin_operation()).  The cookie must not be\nwithdrawn until it drops to zero.\n\nThe counter is checked by fscache_cookie_state_machine() before\nswitching to FSCACHE_COOKIE_STATE_RELINQUISHING and\nFSCACHE_COOKIE_STATE_WITHDRAWING (in \"case\nFSCACHE_COOKIE_STATE_FAILED\"), but not for\nFSCACHE_COOKIE_STATE_LRU_DISCARDING (\"case\nFSCACHE_COOKIE_STATE_ACTIVE\").\n\nThis patch adds the missing check.  With a non-zero access counter,\nthe function returns and the next fscache_end_cookie_access() call\nwill queue another fscache_cookie_state_machine() call to handle the\nstill-pending FSCACHE_COOKIE_DO_LRU_DISCARD."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"12bb21a29c19aae50cfad4e2bb5c943108f34a7d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8a50877f68efdcc0be3fcc5116e00c31b90e45b"},{"version":"12bb21a29c19aae50cfad4e2bb5c943108f34a7d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dfaa39b05a6cf34a16c525a2759ee6ab26b5fef6"},{"version":"12bb21a29c19aae50cfad4e2bb5c943108f34a7d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a4d41fa14b2a0efd40e350cfe8ec6a4c998ac1d"},{"version":"12bb21a29c19aae50cfad4e2bb5c943108f34a7d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f71aa06398aabc2e3eaac25acdf3d62e0094ba70"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.107","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.48","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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