CVE-2024-56630

kernel: ocfs2: free inode when ocfs2_get_init_inode() fails

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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Published · December 27, 2024

Updated · November 25, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: free inode when ocfs2_get_init_inode() fails

syzbot is reporting busy inodes after unmount, for commit 9c89fe0af826 ("ocfs2: Handle error from dquot_initialize()") forgot to call iput() when new_inode() succeeded and dquot_initialize() failed.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

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