linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53247: btrfs: set_page_extent_mapped after read_folio in btrfs_cont

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Message-ID: <2025091501-CVE-2023-53247-60a0@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:46:22 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53247: btrfs: set_page_extent_mapped after read_folio in btrfs_cont_expand

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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

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

btrfs: set_page_extent_mapped after read_folio in btrfs_cont_expand

While trying to get the subpage blocksize tests running, I hit the
following panic on generic/476

  assertion failed: PagePrivate(page) && page->private, in fs/btrfs/subpage.c:229
  kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/subpage.c:229!
  Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 1 PID: 1453 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7+ #12
  Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20230301gitf80f052277c8-26.fc38 03/01/2023
  pstate: 61400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
  pc : btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
  lr : btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
  Call trace:
   btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
   btrfs_subpage_clear_checked+0x38/0xc0
   btrfs_page_clear_checked+0x48/0x98
   btrfs_truncate_block+0x5d0/0x6a8
   btrfs_cont_expand+0x5c/0x528
   btrfs_write_check.isra.0+0xf8/0x150
   btrfs_buffered_write+0xb4/0x760
   btrfs_do_write_iter+0x2f8/0x4b0
   btrfs_file_write_iter+0x1c/0x30
   do_iter_readv_writev+0xc8/0x158
   do_iter_write+0x9c/0x210
   vfs_iter_write+0x24/0x40
   iter_file_splice_write+0x224/0x390
   direct_splice_actor+0x38/0x68
   splice_direct_to_actor+0x12c/0x260
   do_splice_direct+0x90/0xe8
   generic_copy_file_range+0x50/0x90
   vfs_copy_file_range+0x29c/0x470
   __arm64_sys_copy_file_range+0xcc/0x498
   invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x80/0xd8
   do_el0_svc+0x6c/0x168
   el0_svc+0x50/0x1b0
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0x114/0x120
   el0t_64_sync+0x194/0x198

This happens because during btrfs_cont_expand we'll get a page, set it
as mapped, and if it's not Uptodate we'll read it.  However between the
read and re-locking the page we could have called release_folio() on the
page, but left the page in the file mapping.  release_folio() can clear
the page private, and thus further down we blow up when we go to modify
the subpage bits.

Fix this by putting the set_page_extent_mapped() after the read.  This
is safe because read_folio() will call set_page_extent_mapped() before
it does the read, and then if we clear page private but leave it on the
mapping we're completely safe re-setting set_page_extent_mapped().  With
this patch I can now run generic/476 without panicing.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53247 to this issue.

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

	Fixed in 6.1.42 with commit 0a5e0bc8e8618e32a6ca64450867628eb0a627bf
	Fixed in 6.4.7 with commit a5880e69cf7fe4a0bb1eabae02205352d1b59b7b
	Fixed in 6.5 with commit 17b17fcd6d446b95904a6929c40012ee7f0afc0c

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-2023-53247
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/0a5e0bc8e8618e32a6ca64450867628eb0a627bf
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5880e69cf7fe4a0bb1eabae02205352d1b59b7b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17b17fcd6d446b95904a6929c40012ee7f0afc0c