CVE-2021-46945 (GCVE-0-2021-46945)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-27 18:40 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:44
VLAI
Title
ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 ("ext4: make ext4_abort() use __ext4_error()"), the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sda -o remount,abort test After commit 014c9caa29d3, remounting a file system using the test mount option "abort" will no longer trigger a panic. This commit will restore the behaviour immediately before commit 014c9caa29d3. (However, note that the Linux kernel's behavior has not been consistent; some previous kernel versions, including 5.4 and 4.19 similarly did not panic after using the mount option "abort".) This also makes a change to long-standing behaviour; namely, the following series commands will now cause a panic, when previously it did not: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. echo test > /sys/fs/ext4/sda/trigger_fs_error However, this makes ext4's behaviour much more consistent, so this is a good thing.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-28 17:01 UTC
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References
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 014c9caa29d3a44e0de695c99ef18bec3e887d52 , < 64e1eebe2131183174f4fbb6b1491355f96c6cde (git)
Affected: 014c9caa29d3a44e0de695c99ef18bec3e887d52 , < 1e9ea8f4637026b8e965128953f2da061ccae9c4 (git)
Affected: 014c9caa29d3a44e0de695c99ef18bec3e887d52 , < ac2f7ca51b0929461ea49918f27c11b680f28995 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.11.20 , ≤ 5.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.12.3 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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