CVE-2024-40969

A f2fs vulnerability was found in the Linux Kernel involving a deadlock during shutdown due to a failure to check for errors from the thaw_super function. When attempting to freeze the block device and set the file system to read-only, the system hangs if the superblock is already read-only.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not vulnerable to this CVE, as it does not affect the versions or configurations of the Linux kernel used in its distributions.

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