linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-50118: btrfs: reject ro->rw reconfiguration if there are hard ro requirements

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Message-ID: <2024110556-CVE-2024-50118-498e@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  5 Nov 2024 18:11:07 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-50118: btrfs: reject ro->rw reconfiguration if there are hard ro requirements

Description
===========

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

btrfs: reject ro->rw reconfiguration if there are hard ro requirements

[BUG]
Syzbot reports the following crash:

  BTRFS info (device loop0 state MCS): disabling free space tree
  BTRFS info (device loop0 state MCS): clearing compat-ro feature flag for FREE_SPACE_TREE (0x1)
  BTRFS info (device loop0 state MCS): clearing compat-ro feature flag for FREE_SPACE_TREE_VALID (0x2)
  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:backup_super_roots fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1691 [inline]
  RIP: 0010:write_all_supers+0x97a/0x40f0 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:4041
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   btrfs_commit_transaction+0x1eae/0x3740 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2530
   btrfs_delete_free_space_tree+0x383/0x730 fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c:1312
   btrfs_start_pre_rw_mount+0xf28/0x1300 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:3012
   btrfs_remount_rw fs/btrfs/super.c:1309 [inline]
   btrfs_reconfigure+0xae6/0x2d40 fs/btrfs/super.c:1534
   btrfs_reconfigure_for_mount fs/btrfs/super.c:2020 [inline]
   btrfs_get_tree_subvol fs/btrfs/super.c:2079 [inline]
   btrfs_get_tree+0x918/0x1920 fs/btrfs/super.c:2115
   vfs_get_tree+0x90/0x2b0 fs/super.c:1800
   do_new_mount+0x2be/0xb40 fs/namespace.c:3472
   do_mount fs/namespace.c:3812 [inline]
   __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4020 [inline]
   __se_sys_mount+0x2d6/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3997
   do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
   do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

[CAUSE]
To support mounting different subvolume with different RO/RW flags for
the new mount APIs, btrfs introduced two workaround to support this feature:

- Skip mount option/feature checks if we are mounting a different
  subvolume

- Reconfigure the fs to RW if the initial mount is RO

Combining these two, we can have the following sequence:

- Mount the fs ro,rescue=all,clear_cache,space_cache=v1
  rescue=all will mark the fs as hard read-only, so no v2 cache clearing
  will happen.

- Mount a subvolume rw of the same fs.
  We go into btrfs_get_tree_subvol(), but fc_mount() returns EBUSY
  because our new fc is RW, different from the original fs.

  Now we enter btrfs_reconfigure_for_mount(), which switches the RO flag
  first so that we can grab the existing fs_info.
  Then we reconfigure the fs to RW.

- During reconfiguration, option/features check is skipped
  This means we will restart the v2 cache clearing, and convert back to
  v1 cache.
  This will trigger fs writes, and since the original fs has "rescue=all"
  option, it skips the csum tree read.

  And eventually causing NULL pointer dereference in super block
  writeback.

[FIX]
For reconfiguration caused by different subvolume RO/RW flags, ensure we
always run btrfs_check_options() to ensure we have proper hard RO
requirements met.

In fact the function btrfs_check_options() doesn't really do many
complex checks, but hard RO requirement and some feature dependency
checks, thus there is no special reason not to do the check for mount
reconfiguration.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-50118 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit f044b318675f and fixed in 6.11.6 with commit 23724398b55d
	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit f044b318675f and fixed in 6.12-rc5 with commit 3c36a72c1d27

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2024-50118
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/btrfs/super.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23724398b55d9570f6ae79dd2ea026fff8896bf1
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c36a72c1d27de6618c1c480c793d9924640f5bb