# CVE-2024-50250: fsdax: dax\_unshare\_iter needs to copy entire blocks

- 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=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.1.116
- Published: 2024-11-09 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: from 6.1.113, fixed in 6.1.116
- Linux: 6.2

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsdax: dax_unshare_iter needs to copy entire blocks The code that copies data from srcmap to iomap in dax_unshare_iter is very very broken, which bfoster's recent fsx changes have exposed. If the pos and len passed to dax_file_unshare are not aligned to an fsblock boundary, the iter pos and length in the _iter function will reflect this unalignment. dax_iomap_direct_access always returns a pointer to the start of the kmapped fsdax page, even if its pos argument is in the middle of that page. This is catastrophic for data integrity when iter->pos is not aligned to a page, because daddr/saddr do not point to the same byte in the file as iter->pos. Hence we corrupt user data by copying it to the wrong place. If iter->pos + iomap_length() in the _iter function not aligned to a page, then we fail to copy a full block, and only partially populate the destination block. This is catastrophic for data confidentiality because we expose stale pmem contents. Fix both of these issues by aligning copy_pos/copy_len to a page boundary (remember, this is fsdax so 1 fsblock == 1 base page) so that we always copy full blocks. We're not done yet -- there's no call to invalidate_inode_pages2_range, so programs that have the file range mmap'd will continue accessing the old memory mapping after the file metadata updates have completed. Be careful with the return value -- if the unshare succeeds, we still need to return the number of bytes that the iomap iter thinks we're operating on.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (6.1.116) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdbc96c23197d773a7d1bf03e4f11de593b0ff28
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bc18bb476e50e32e5d08f2734d63d63e0fa528c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e9c0f500b42216ef930f5c0d1703989a451913d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50793801fc7f6d08def48754fb0f0706b0cfc394

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