Message-ID: <2025123028-CVE-2023-54224-9f68@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:13:54 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54224: btrfs: fix lockdep splat and potential deadlock after failure running delayed items

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

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

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

btrfs: fix lockdep splat and potential deadlock after failure running delayed items

When running delayed items we are holding a delayed node's mutex and then
we will attempt to modify a subvolume btree to insert/update/delete the
delayed items. However if have an error during the insertions for example,
btrfs_insert_delayed_items() may return with a path that has locked extent
buffers (a leaf at the very least), and then we attempt to release the
delayed node at __btrfs_run_delayed_items(), which requires taking the
delayed node's mutex, causing an ABBA type of deadlock. This was reported
by syzbot and the lockdep splat is the following:

  WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
  6.5.0-rc7-syzkaller-00024-g93f5de5f648d #0 Not tainted
  ------------------------------------------------------
  syz-executor.2/13257 is trying to acquire lock:
  ffff88801835c0c0 (&delayed_node->mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __btrfs_release_delayed_node+0x9a/0xaa0 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:256

  but task is already holding lock:
  ffff88802a5ab8e8 (btrfs-tree-00){++++}-{3:3}, at: __btrfs_tree_lock+0x3c/0x2a0 fs/btrfs/locking.c:198

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

  the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

  -> #1 (btrfs-tree-00){++++}-{3:3}:
         __lock_release kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5475 [inline]
         lock_release+0x36f/0x9d0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5781
         up_write+0x79/0x580 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1625
         btrfs_tree_unlock_rw fs/btrfs/locking.h:189 [inline]
         btrfs_unlock_up_safe+0x179/0x3b0 fs/btrfs/locking.c:239
         search_leaf fs/btrfs/ctree.c:1986 [inline]
         btrfs_search_slot+0x2511/0x2f80 fs/btrfs/ctree.c:2230
         btrfs_insert_empty_items+0x9c/0x180 fs/btrfs/ctree.c:4376
         btrfs_insert_delayed_item fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:746 [inline]
         btrfs_insert_delayed_items fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:824 [inline]
         __btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_items+0xd24/0x2410 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1111
         __btrfs_run_delayed_items+0x1db/0x430 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1153
         flush_space+0x269/0xe70 fs/btrfs/space-info.c:723
         btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space+0x106/0x350 fs/btrfs/space-info.c:1078
         process_one_work+0x92c/0x12c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2600
         worker_thread+0xa63/0x1210 kernel/workqueue.c:2751
         kthread+0x2b8/0x350 kernel/kthread.c:389
         ret_from_fork+0x2e/0x60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145
         ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304

  -> #0 (&delayed_node->mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:
         check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3142 [inline]
         check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3261 [inline]
         validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3876 [inline]
         __lock_acquire+0x39ff/0x7f70 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5144
         lock_acquire+0x1e3/0x520 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5761
         __mutex_lock_common+0x1d8/0x2530 kernel/locking/mutex.c:603
         __mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:747 [inline]
         mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20 kernel/locking/mutex.c:799
         __btrfs_release_delayed_node+0x9a/0xaa0 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:256
         btrfs_release_delayed_node fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:281 [inline]
         __btrfs_run_delayed_items+0x2b5/0x430 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1156
         btrfs_commit_transaction+0x859/0x2ff0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2276
         btrfs_sync_file+0xf56/0x1330 fs/btrfs/file.c:1988
         vfs_fsync_range fs/sync.c:188 [inline]
         vfs_fsync fs/sync.c:202 [inline]
         do_fsync fs/sync.c:212 [inline]
         __do_sys_fsync fs/sync.c:220 [inline]
         __se_sys_fsync fs/sync.c:218 [inline]
         __x64_sys_fsync+0x196/0x1e0 fs/sync.c:218
         do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
         do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
         entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

  other info that might help us debug this:

   Possible unsafe locking scenario:

         CPU0                    CPU1
         ----                    ----
    lock(btrfs-tree-00);
                                 lock(&delayed_node->mutex);
                                 lock(btrfs-tree-00);
    lock(&delayed_node->mutex);

   *** DEADLOCK ***

  3 locks held by syz-executor.2/13257:
   #0: ffff88802c1ee370 (btrfs_trans_num_writers){++++}-{0:0}, at: spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock.h:391 [inline]
   #0: ffff88802c1ee370 (btrfs_trans_num_writers){++++}-{0:0}, at: join_transaction+0xb87/0xe00 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:287
   #1: ffff88802c1ee398 (btrfs_trans_num_extwriters){++++}-{0:0}, at: join_transaction+0xbb2/0xe00 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:288
   #2: ffff88802a5ab8e8 (btrfs-tree-00){++++}-{3:3}, at: __btrfs_tree_lock+0x3c/0x2a0 fs/btrfs/locking.c:198

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 0 PID: 13257 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc7-syzkaller-00024-g93f5de5f648d #0
  Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/26/2023
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
   dump_stack_lvl+0x1e7/0x2d0 lib/dump_stack.c:106
   check_noncircular+0x375/0x4a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2195
   check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3142 [inline]
   check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3261 [inline]
   validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3876 [inline]
   __lock_acquire+0x39ff/0x7f70 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5144
   lock_acquire+0x1e3/0x520 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5761
   __mutex_lock_common+0x1d8/0x2530 kernel/locking/mutex.c:603
   __mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:747 [inline]
   mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20 kernel/locking/mutex.c:799
   __btrfs_release_delayed_node+0x9a/0xaa0 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:256
   btrfs_release_delayed_node fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:281 [inline]
   __btrfs_run_delayed_items+0x2b5/0x430 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1156
   btrfs_commit_transaction+0x859/0x2ff0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2276
   btrfs_sync_file+0xf56/0x1330 fs/btrfs/file.c:1988
   vfs_fsync_range fs/sync.c:188 [inline]
   vfs_fsync fs/sync.c:202 [inline]
   do_fsync fs/sync.c:212 [inline]
   __do_sys_fsync fs/sync.c:220 [inline]
   __se_sys_fsync fs/sync.c:218 [inline]
   __x64_sys_fsync+0x196/0x1e0 fs/sync.c:218
   do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
   do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
  RIP: 0033:0x7f3ad047cae9
  Code: 28 00 00 00 75 (...)
  RSP: 002b:00007f3ad12510c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000004a
  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3ad059bf80 RCX: 00007f3ad047cae9
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000005
  RBP: 00007f3ad04c847a R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007f3ad059bf80 R15: 00007ffe56af92f8
   </TASK>
  ------------[ cut here ]------------

Fix this by releasing the path before releasing the delayed node in the
error path at __btrfs_run_delayed_items().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54224 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 4.14.326 with commit 50abe4b37f58a25214b732212926d35e6fabd6c3
	Fixed in 4.19.295 with commit 126d5a99e583e2d387ee4ea7b796c8fec4483244
	Fixed in 5.4.257 with commit a70c6e57316b677c83e0e53569c555057b5813c4
	Fixed in 5.10.197 with commit 3d379dd109f80c8f3b9aaa2d15681b37803aa4c0
	Fixed in 5.15.133 with commit 779c3cf2749c7a7bad6f839cb2954a25ba92f4d6
	Fixed in 6.1.55 with commit 32247b9526bfdaeef85f7339d9b4f913c7370f92
	Fixed in 6.5.5 with commit 36d918da3f1bf749178c7daf471a3be1730ed3ca
	Fixed in 6.6 with commit e110f8911ddb93e6f55da14ccbbe705397b30d0b

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-2023-54224
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/delayed-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/50abe4b37f58a25214b732212926d35e6fabd6c3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/126d5a99e583e2d387ee4ea7b796c8fec4483244
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a70c6e57316b677c83e0e53569c555057b5813c4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d379dd109f80c8f3b9aaa2d15681b37803aa4c0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/779c3cf2749c7a7bad6f839cb2954a25ba92f4d6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32247b9526bfdaeef85f7339d9b4f913c7370f92
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36d918da3f1bf749178c7daf471a3be1730ed3ca
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e110f8911ddb93e6f55da14ccbbe705397b30d0b

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