{"cve":"CVE-2024-42315","nvd":{"published":"2024-08-17T09:15:11.470","modified":"2026-06-17T07:49:14.643","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexfat: fix potential deadlock on __exfat_get_dentry_set\n\nWhen accessing a file with more entries than ES_MAX_ENTRY_NUM, the bh-array\nis allocated in __exfat_get_entry_set. The problem is that the bh-array is\nallocated with GFP_KERNEL. It does not make sense. In the following cases,\na deadlock for sbi->s_lock between the two processes may occur.\n\n       CPU0                CPU1\n       ----                ----\n  kswapd\n   balance_pgdat\n    lock(fs_reclaim)\n                      exfat_iterate\n                       lock(&sbi->s_lock)\n                       exfat_readdir\n                        exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry\n                         exfat_get_dentry_set\n                          __exfat_get_dentry_set\n                           kmalloc_array\n                            ...\n                            lock(fs_reclaim)\n    ...\n    evict\n     exfat_evict_inode\n      lock(&sbi->s_lock)\n\nTo fix this, let's allocate bh-array with GFP_NOFS.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-667"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d1970493c289e3f44b9ec847ed26a5dbdf56a62","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/632fb232b6bbf8277edcbe9ecd4b4d98ecb122eb","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89fc548767a2155231128cb98726d6d2ea1256c9","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7ac198f8dba791e3144c4da48a5a9b95773ee4b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c052f775ee6ccacd3c97e4cf41a2a657e63d4259"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:54:16.205165117+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-42315","score":0.00166,"percentile":0.05879,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}