# CVE-2024-41020: filelock: Fix fcntl/close race recovery compat path

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-07-29 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.13

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: filelock: Fix fcntl/close race recovery compat path When I wrote commit 3cad1bc01041 ("filelock: Remove locks reliably when fcntl/close race is detected"), I missed that there are two copies of the code I was patching: The normal version, and the version for 64-bit offsets on 32-bit kernels. Thanks to Greg KH for stumbling over this while doing the stable backport... Apply exactly the same fix to the compat path for 32-bit kernels.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a561145f3ae973ebf3e0aee41624e92a6c5cb38d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c43ad4ab41602201d34c66ac62130fe339d686f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/911cc83e56a2de5a40758766c6a70d6998248860
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53e21cfa68a7d12de378b7116c75571f73e0dfa2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4d0775c6e2f1340ca0725f0337de149aaa989ca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73ae349534ebc377328e7d21891e589626c6e82c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b0af8e4c70e4b884bb94ff5f0cd49ecf1273c02
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed898f9ca3fa32c56c858b463ceb9d9936cc69c4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8138f2ad2f745b9a1c696a05b749eabe44337ea

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