CVE-2024-35784

btrfs: fix deadlock with fiemap and extent locking

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: May 17, 2024 at 12:24 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:35 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix deadlock with fiemap and extent locking While working on the patchset to remove extent locking I got a lockdep splat with fiemap and pagefaulting with my new extent lock replacement lock. This deadlock exists with our normal code, we just don't have lockdep annotations with the extent locking so we've never noticed it. Since we're copying the fiemap extent to user space on every iteration we have the chance of pagefaulting. Because we hold the extent lock for the entire range we could mkwrite into a range in the file that we have mmap'ed. This would deadlock with the following stack trace [<0>] lock_extent+0x28d/0x2f0 [<0>] btrfs_page_mkwrite+0x273/0x8a0 [<0>] do_page_mkwrite+0x50/0xb0 [<0>] do_fault+0xc1/0x7b0 [<0>] __handle_mm_fault+0x2fa/0x460 [<0>] handle_mm_fault+0xa4/0x330 [<0>] do_user_addr_fault+0x1f4/0x800 [<0>] exc_page_fault+0x7c/0x1e0 [<0>] asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 [<0>] rep_movs_alternative+0x33/0x70 [<0>] _copy_to_user+0x49/0x70 [<0>] fiemap_fill_next_extent+0xc8/0x120 [<0>] emit_fiemap_extent+0x4d/0xa0 [<0>] extent_fiemap+0x7f8/0xad0 [<0>] btrfs_fiemap+0x49/0x80 [<0>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x3e1/0xb50 [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x94/0x1a0 [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 I wrote an fstest to reproduce this deadlock without my replacement lock and verified that the deadlock exists with our existing locking. To fix this simply don't take the extent lock for the entire duration of the fiemap. This is safe in general because we keep track of where we are when we're searching the tree, so if an ordered extent updates in the middle of our fiemap call we'll still emit the correct extents because we know what offset we were on before. The only place we maintain the lock is searching delalloc. Since the delalloc stuff can change during writeback we want to lock the extent range so we have a consistent view of delalloc at the time we're checking to see if we need to set the delalloc flag. With this patch applied we no longer deadlock with my testcase.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 6.6.242.6.29 ≤ v < 6.6.242.6.29 ≤ v < 6.7.122.6.29 ≤ v < 6.86.7 ≤ v < 6.7.121506fcc8189cdd4b95e06df7845a09f18b4526a66.8 rc16.8 rc26.8 rc36.8 rc46.8 rc5
Vendor states this is fixed in 89bca7fe6382d61e88c67a0b0e7bce315986fb8b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b0ad381fa7690244802aed119b478b4bdafc31dd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ded566b4637f1b6b4c9ba74e7d0b8493e93f19cf (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.29 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.24 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.7.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.8 (unaffected)

References (3)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89bca7fe6382d61e88c67a0b0e7bce315986fb8b
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0ad381fa7690244802aed119b478b4bdafc31dd
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ded566b4637f1b6b4c9ba74e7d0b8493e93f19cf

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
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CWE
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