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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-46701"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-09-13T06:27:29.911Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:34:42.996Z"
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-2024-46701"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-46701.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-46701"
title: "libfs: fix infinite directory reads for offset dir"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlibfs: fix infinite directory reads for offset dir\n\nAfter we switch tmpfs dir operations from simple_dir_operations to\nsimple_offset_dir_operations, every rename happened will fill new dentry\nto dest dir's maple tree(&SHMEM_I(inode)-\u003edir_offsets-\u003emt) with a free\nkey starting with octx-\u003enewx_offset, and then set newx_offset equals to\nfree key + 1. This will lead to infinite readdir combine with rename\nhappened at the same time, which fail generic/736 in xfstests(detail show\nas below).\n\n1. create 5000 files(1 2 3...) under one dir\n2. call readdir(man 3 readdir) once, and get one entry\n3. rename(entry, \"TEMPFILE\"), then rename(\"TEMPFILE\", entry)\n4. loop 2~3, until readdir return nothing or we loop too many\n   times(tmpfs break test with the second condition)\n\nWe choose the same logic what commit 9b378f6ad48cf (\"btrfs: fix infinite\ndirectory reads\") to fix it, record the last_index when we open dir, and\ndo not emit the entry which index \u003e= last_index. The file-\u003eprivate_data\nnow used in offset dir can use directly to do this, and we also update\nthe last_index when we llseek the dir file.\n\n[brauner: only update last_index after seek when offset is zero like Jan suggested]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a2e459555c5f9da3e619b7e47a63f98574dc75f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"308b4fc2403b335894592ee9dc212a5e58bb309f"},{"version":"a2e459555c5f9da3e619b7e47a63f98574dc75f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64a7ce76fb901bf9f9c36cf5d681328fc0fd4b5a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"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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