linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54067: btrfs: fix race when deleting free space root from the dirty cow roots list

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Message-ID: <2025122430-CVE-2023-54067-46cb@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:27:00 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54067: btrfs: fix race when deleting free space root from the dirty cow roots list

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

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

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

btrfs: fix race when deleting free space root from the dirty cow roots list

When deleting the free space tree we are deleting the free space root
from the list fs_info->dirty_cowonly_roots without taking the lock that
protects it, which is struct btrfs_fs_info::trans_lock.
This unsynchronized list manipulation may cause chaos if there's another
concurrent manipulation of this list, such as when adding a root to it
with ctree.c:add_root_to_dirty_list().

This can result in all sorts of weird failures caused by a race, such as
the following crash:

  [337571.278245] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000108: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  [337571.278933] CPU: 1 PID: 115447 Comm: btrfs Tainted: G        W          6.4.0-rc6-btrfs-next-134+ #1
  [337571.279153] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  [337571.279572] RIP: 0010:commit_cowonly_roots+0x11f/0x250 [btrfs]
  [337571.279928] Code: 85 38 06 00 (...)
  [337571.280363] RSP: 0018:ffff9f63446efba0 EFLAGS: 00010206
  [337571.280582] RAX: ffff942d98ec2638 RBX: ffff9430b82b4c30 RCX: 0000000449e1c000
  [337571.280798] RDX: dead000000000100 RSI: ffff9430021e4900 RDI: 0000000000036070
  [337571.281015] RBP: ffff942d98ec2000 R08: ffff942d98ec2000 R09: 000000000000015b
  [337571.281254] R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff942fe8fbf600
  [337571.281476] R13: ffff942dabe23040 R14: ffff942dabe20800 R15: ffff942d92cf3b48
  [337571.281723] FS:  00007f478adb7340(0000) GS:ffff94349fa40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  [337571.281950] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  [337571.282184] CR2: 00007f478ab9a3d5 CR3: 000000001e02c001 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
  [337571.282416] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  [337571.282647] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  [337571.282874] Call Trace:
  [337571.283101]  <TASK>
  [337571.283327]  ? __die_body+0x1b/0x60
  [337571.283570]  ? die_addr+0x39/0x60
  [337571.283796]  ? exc_general_protection+0x22e/0x430
  [337571.284022]  ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30
  [337571.284251]  ? commit_cowonly_roots+0x11f/0x250 [btrfs]
  [337571.284531]  btrfs_commit_transaction+0x42e/0xf90 [btrfs]
  [337571.284803]  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30
  [337571.285031]  ? release_extent_buffer+0x103/0x130 [btrfs]
  [337571.285305]  reset_balance_state+0x152/0x1b0 [btrfs]
  [337571.285578]  btrfs_balance+0xa50/0x11e0 [btrfs]
  [337571.285864]  ? __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x14a/0x410
  [337571.286086]  btrfs_ioctl+0x249a/0x3320 [btrfs]
  [337571.286358]  ? mod_objcg_state+0xd2/0x360
  [337571.286577]  ? refill_obj_stock+0xb0/0x160
  [337571.286798]  ? seq_release+0x25/0x30
  [337571.287016]  ? __rseq_handle_notify_resume+0x3ba/0x4b0
  [337571.287235]  ? percpu_counter_add_batch+0x2e/0xa0
  [337571.287455]  ? __x64_sys_ioctl+0x88/0xc0
  [337571.287675]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x88/0xc0
  [337571.287901]  do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
  [337571.288126]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
  [337571.288352] RIP: 0033:0x7f478aaffe9b

So fix this by locking struct btrfs_fs_info::trans_lock before deleting
the free space root from that list.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54067 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 4.5 with commit a5ed91828518ab076209266c2bc510adabd078df and fixed in 6.1.39 with commit 6f1c81886b0b56cb88b311e5d2f203625474d892
	Issue introduced in 4.5 with commit a5ed91828518ab076209266c2bc510adabd078df and fixed in 6.4.4 with commit 8ce9139aea5e60a247bde5af804312f54975f443
	Issue introduced in 4.5 with commit a5ed91828518ab076209266c2bc510adabd078df and fixed in 6.5 with commit babebf023e661b90b1c78b2baa384fb03a226879

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-2023-54067
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/free-space-tree.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/6f1c81886b0b56cb88b311e5d2f203625474d892
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ce9139aea5e60a247bde5af804312f54975f443
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/babebf023e661b90b1c78b2baa384fb03a226879