Threats tagged 'ghsa-6rpm-59f8-4x64'

A medium-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfs subsystem related to Ceph with local caching was fixed. The issue involved the copy-to-cache operation where asynchronous write requests to the cache would hang because the notification mechanism incorrectly attempted to wake an application that was no longer waiting. This was due to a missing flag (NETFS_RREQ_OFFLOAD_COLLECTION) in the request handling. The fix sets this flag to ensure proper deferred processing via a work queue, preventing the request from hanging.