# CVE-2024-50014: ext4: fix access to uninitialised lock in fc replay path

> A local attacker can cause a kernel crash by mounting an ext4 filesystem with fast-commit enabled, due to accessing an uninitialized lock during journal replay.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 21 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-51750, AZL-51788, BELL-CVE-2024-50014, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50014, GHSA-v7j7-2w3m-jfff, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-50014, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-50014, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50014

## What is CVE-2024-50014?

CVE-2024-50014 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix access to uninitialised lock in fc replay path

The following kernel trace can be triggered with fstest generic/629 when
executed against a filesystem with fast-commit feature enabled:

INFO: trying to register non-static key.
The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
you didn't initialize this object before use?
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 0 PID: 866 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.10.0+ #11
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-3-gd478f380-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x66/0x90
 register_lock_class+0x759/0x7d0
 __lock_acquire+0x85/0x2630
 ? __find_get_block+0xb4/0x380
 lock_acquire+0xd1/0x2d0
 ? __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0xd5/0x160
 _raw_spin_lock+0x33/0x40
 ? __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0xd5/0x160
 __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0xd5/0x160
 ext4_reserve_inode_write+0x61/0xb0
 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x79/0x270
 ? ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks+0x2f8/0x450
 ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks+0x330/0x450
 ext4_fc_replay+0x14c8/0x1540
 ? jread+0x88/0x2e0
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0x40
 do_one_pass+0x447/0xd00
 jbd2_journal_recover+0x139/0x1b0
 jbd2_journal_load+0x96/0x390
 ext4_load_and_init_journal+0x253/0xd40
 ext4_fill_super+0x2cc6/0x3180
...

In the replay path there's an attempt to lock sbi->s_bdev_wb_lock in
function ext4_check_bdev_write_error().  Unfortunately, at this point this
spinlock has not been initialized yet.  Moving it's initialization to an
earlier point in __ext4_fill_super() fixes this splat.

Weakness: CWE-908 (Use of Uninitialized Resource)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50014?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-50014?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-50014 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50014 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

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- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-50014 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-50014 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50014 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50014/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50014/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50014
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50014
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-50014

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