# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-47660"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-09T14:02:54.884Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:51:06.008Z"
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-2024-47660"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-47660.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47660"
title: "fsnotify: clear PARENT_WATCHED flags lazily"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfsnotify: clear PARENT_WATCHED flags lazily\n\nIn some setups directories can have many (usually negative) dentries.\nHence __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() function can take a\nsignificant amount of time. Since the bulk of this function happens\nunder inode-\u003ei_lock this causes a significant contention on the lock\nwhen we remove the watch from the directory as the\n__fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() call from fsnotify_recalc_mask()\nraces with __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() calls from\n__fsnotify_parent() happening on children. This can lead upto softlockup\nreports reported by users.\n\nFix the problem by calling fsnotify_update_children_dentry_flags() to\nset PARENT_WATCHED flags only when parent starts watching children.\n\nWhen parent stops watching children, clear false positive PARENT_WATCHED\nflags lazily in __fsnotify_parent() for each accessed child."
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