Message-ID: <2025022633-CVE-2024-57976-10f5@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:05:35 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-57976: btrfs: do proper folio cleanup when cow_file_range() failed

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

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

btrfs: do proper folio cleanup when cow_file_range() failed

[BUG]
When testing with COW fixup marked as BUG_ON() (this is involved with the
new pin_user_pages*() change, which should not result new out-of-band
dirty pages), I hit a crash triggered by the BUG_ON() from hitting COW
fixup path.

This BUG_ON() happens just after a failed btrfs_run_delalloc_range():

  BTRFS error (device dm-2): failed to run delalloc range, root 348 ino 405 folio 65536 submit_bitmap 6-15 start 90112 len 106496: -28
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:1444!
  Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 434621 Comm: kworker/u24:8 Tainted: G           OE      6.12.0-rc7-custom+ #86
  Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
  Workqueue: events_unbound btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space [btrfs]
  pc : extent_writepage_io+0x2d4/0x308 [btrfs]
  lr : extent_writepage_io+0x2d4/0x308 [btrfs]
  Call trace:
   extent_writepage_io+0x2d4/0x308 [btrfs]
   extent_writepage+0x218/0x330 [btrfs]
   extent_write_cache_pages+0x1d4/0x4b0 [btrfs]
   btrfs_writepages+0x94/0x150 [btrfs]
   do_writepages+0x74/0x190
   filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x88/0xc8
   start_delalloc_inodes+0x180/0x3b0 [btrfs]
   btrfs_start_delalloc_roots+0x174/0x280 [btrfs]
   shrink_delalloc+0x114/0x280 [btrfs]
   flush_space+0x250/0x2f8 [btrfs]
   btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space+0x180/0x228 [btrfs]
   process_one_work+0x164/0x408
   worker_thread+0x25c/0x388
   kthread+0x100/0x118
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
  Code: aa1403e1 9402f3ef aa1403e0 9402f36f (d4210000)
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

[CAUSE]
That failure is mostly from cow_file_range(), where we can hit -ENOSPC.

Although the -ENOSPC is already a bug related to our space reservation
code, let's just focus on the error handling.

For example, we have the following dirty range [0, 64K) of an inode,
with 4K sector size and 4K page size:

   0        16K        32K       48K       64K
   |///////////////////////////////////////|
   |#######################################|

Where |///| means page are still dirty, and |###| means the extent io
tree has EXTENT_DELALLOC flag.

- Enter extent_writepage() for page 0

- Enter btrfs_run_delalloc_range() for range [0, 64K)

- Enter cow_file_range() for range [0, 64K)

- Function btrfs_reserve_extent() only reserved one 16K extent
  So we created extent map and ordered extent for range [0, 16K)

   0        16K        32K       48K       64K
   |////////|//////////////////////////////|
   |<- OE ->|##############################|

   And range [0, 16K) has its delalloc flag cleared.
   But since we haven't yet submit any bio, involved 4 pages are still
   dirty.

- Function btrfs_reserve_extent() returns with -ENOSPC
  Now we have to run error cleanup, which will clear all
  EXTENT_DELALLOC* flags and clear the dirty flags for the remaining
  ranges:

   0        16K        32K       48K       64K
   |////////|                              |
   |        |                              |

  Note that range [0, 16K) still has its pages dirty.

- Some time later, writeback is triggered again for the range [0, 16K)
  since the page range still has dirty flags.

- btrfs_run_delalloc_range() will do nothing because there is no
  EXTENT_DELALLOC flag.

- extent_writepage_io() finds page 0 has no ordered flag
  Which falls into the COW fixup path, triggering the BUG_ON().

Unfortunately this error handling bug dates back to the introduction of
btrfs.  Thankfully with the abuse of COW fixup, at least it won't crash
the kernel.

[FIX]
Instead of immediately unlocking the extent and folios, we keep the extent
and folios locked until either erroring out or the whole delalloc range
finished.

When the whole delalloc range finished without error, we just unlock the
whole range with PAGE_SET_ORDERED (and PAGE_UNLOCK for !keep_locked
cases), with EXTENT_DELALLOC and EXTENT_LOCKED cleared.
And the involved folios will be properly submitted, with their dirty
flags cleared during submission.

For the error path, it will be a little more complex:

- The range with ordered extent allocated (range (1))
  We only clear the EXTENT_DELALLOC and EXTENT_LOCKED, as the remaining
  flags are cleaned up by
  btrfs_mark_ordered_io_finished()->btrfs_finish_one_ordered().

  For folios we finish the IO (clear dirty, start writeback and
  immediately finish the writeback) and unlock the folios.

- The range with reserved extent but no ordered extent (range(2))
- The range we never touched (range(3))
  For both range (2) and range(3) the behavior is not changed.

Now even if cow_file_range() failed halfway with some successfully
reserved extents/ordered extents, we will keep all folios clean, so
there will be no future writeback triggered on them.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-57976 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 6.13.2 with commit 692cf71173bb41395c855acbbbe197d3aedfa5d4
	Fixed in 6.14-rc1 with commit 06f364284794f149d2abc167c11d556cf20c954b

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-2024-57976
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/inode.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/692cf71173bb41395c855acbbbe197d3aedfa5d4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06f364284794f149d2abc167c11d556cf20c954b

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