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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-45003" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-09-04T19:54:46.276Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:33:34.796Z" 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-2024-45003" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-45003.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45003" title: "vfs: Don't evict inode under the inode lru traversing context" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvfs: Don't evict inode under the inode lru traversing context\n\nThe inode reclaiming process(See function prune_icache_sb) collects all\nreclaimable inodes and mark them with I_FREEING flag at first, at that\ntime, other processes will be stuck if they try getting these inodes\n(See function find_inode_fast), then the reclaiming process destroy the\ninodes by function dispose_list(). Some filesystems(eg. ext4 with\nea_inode feature, ubifs with xattr) may do inode lookup in the inode\nevicting callback function, if the inode lookup is operated under the\ninode lru traversing context, deadlock problems may happen.\n\nCase 1: In function ext4_evict_inode(), the ea inode lookup could happen\n if ea_inode feature is enabled, the lookup process will be stuck\n\tunder the evicting context like this:\n\n 1. File A has inode i_reg and an ea inode i_ea\n 2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // i_ea is added into lru // lru-\u003ei_ea\n 3. Then, following three processes running like this:\n\n PA PB\n echo 2 \u003e /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches\n shrink_slab\n prune_dcache_sb\n // i_reg is added into lru, lru-\u003ei_ea-\u003ei_reg\n prune_icache_sb\n list_lru_walk_one\n inode_lru_isolate\n i_ea-\u003ei_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state\n inode_lru_isolate\n __iget(i_reg)\n spin_unlock(&i_reg-\u003ei_lock)\n spin_unlock(lru_lock)\n rm file A\n i_reg-\u003enlink = 0\n iput(i_reg) // i_reg-\u003enlink is 0, do evict\n ext4_evict_inode\n ext4_xattr_delete_inode\n ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all\n ext4_xattr_inode_iget\n ext4_iget(i_ea-\u003ei_ino)\n iget_locked\n find_inode_fast\n __wait_on_freeing_inode(i_ea) ----→ AA deadlock\n dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb\n wake_up_bit(&i_ea-\u003ei_state)\n\nCase 2: In deleted inode writing function ubifs_jnl_write_inode(), file\n deleting process holds BASEHD's wbuf-\u003eio_mutex while getting the\n\txattr inode, which could race with inode reclaiming process(The\n reclaiming process could try locking BASEHD's wbuf-\u003eio_mutex in\n\tinode evicting function), then an ABBA deadlock problem would\n\thappen as following:\n\n 1. File A has inode ia and a xattr(with inode ixa), regular file B has\n inode ib and a xattr.\n 2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // ixa is added into lru // lru-\u003eixa\n 3. Then, following three processes running like this:\n\n PA PB PC\n echo 2 \u003e /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches\n shrink_slab\n prune_dcache_sb\n // ib and ia are added into lru, lru-\u003eixa-\u003eib-\u003eia\n prune_icache_sb\n list_lru_walk_one\n inode_lru_isolate\n ixa-\u003ei_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state\n inode_lru_isolate\n __iget(ib)\n spin_unlock(&ib-\u003ei_lock)\n spin_unlock(lru_lock)\n rm file B\n ib-\u003enlink = 0\n rm file A\n iput(ia)\n ubifs_evict_inode(ia)\n ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ia)\n ubifs_jnl_write_inode(ia)\n make_reservation(BASEHD) // Lock wbuf-\u003eio_mutex\n ubifs_iget(ixa-\u003ei_ino)\n iget_locked\n find_inode_fast\n __wait_on_freeing_inode(ixa)\n | iput(ib) // ib-\u003enlink is 0, do evict\n | ubifs_evict_inode\n | ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ib)\n ↓ ubifs_jnl_write_inode\n ABBA deadlock ←-----make_reservation(BASEHD)\n dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb\n wake_up_bit(&ixa-\u003ei_state)\n\nFix the possible deadlock by using new inode state flag I_LRU_ISOLATING\nto pin the inode in memory while inode_lru_isolate(\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3525ad25240dfdd8c78f3470911ed10aa727aa72"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03880af02a78bc9a98b5a581f529cf709c88a9b8"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cda54ec82c0f9d05393242b20b13f69b083f7e88"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"437741eba63bf4e437e2beb5583f8633556a2b98"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b9bda5f6012dd00372f3a06a82ed8971a4c57c32"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9063ab49c11e9518a3f2352434bb276cc8134c5f"},{"version":"e50e5129f384ae282adebfb561189cdb19b81cee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a0629834cd82f05d424bbc193374f9a43d1f87d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.13"},{"version":"5.4.283","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.225","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.166","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"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"}] ## 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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