Threats tagged 'ghsa-3265-4r84-rmmm'

A circular locking dependency vulnerability was identified and fixed in the Linux kernel's OCFS2 filesystem code. The issue involved a deadlock scenario caused by the order in which three system inode locks (INODE_ALLOC_SYSTEM_INODE, EXTENT_ALLOC_SYSTEM_INODE, and ORPHAN_DIR_SYSTEM_INODE) were acquired across different functions. This could lead to a deadlock condition in the kernel. The fix breaks the circular dependency by releasing one lock before acquiring another, preventing the deadlock.