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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jul 12, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 7, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

btrfs: zoned: allocate dummy checksums for zoned NODATASUM writes

Shin'ichiro reported that when he's running fstests' test-case
btrfs/167 on emulated zoned devices, he's seeing the following NULL
pointer dereference in 'btrfs_zone_finish_endio()':

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000011: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000088-0x000000000000008f]
CPU: 4 PID: 2332440 Comm: kworker/u80:15 Tainted: G W 6.10.0-rc2-kts+ #4
Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/X11SPi-TF, BIOS 3.3 02/21/2020
Workqueue: btrfs-endio-write btrfs_work_helper [btrfs]
RIP: 0010:btrfs_zone_finish_endio.part.0+0x34/0x160 [btrfs]

RSP: 0018:ffff88867f107a90 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff893e5534
RDX: 0000000000000011 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000000000000088
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1081696028
R10: ffff88840b4b0143 R11: ffff88834dfff600 R12: ffff88840b4b0000
R13: 0000000000020000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888530ad5210
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888e3f800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f87223fff38 CR3: 00000007a7c6a002 CR4: 00000000007706f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:

? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27
? die_addr+0x46/0x70
? exc_general_protection+0x14f/0x250
? asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30
? do_raw_read_unlock+0x44/0x70
? btrfs_zone_finish_endio.part.0+0x34/0x160 [btrfs]
btrfs_finish_one_ordered+0x5d9/0x19a0 [btrfs]
? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10
? do_raw_write_lock+0x90/0x260
? __pfx_do_raw_write_lock+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_btrfs_finish_one_ordered+0x10/0x10 [btrfs]
? _raw_write_unlock+0x23/0x40
? btrfs_finish_ordered_zoned+0x5a9/0x850 [btrfs]
? lock_acquire+0x435/0x500
btrfs_work_helper+0x1b1/0xa70 [btrfs]
? __schedule+0x10a8/0x60b0
? __pfx___might_resched+0x10/0x10
process_one_work+0x862/0x1410
? __pfx_lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10
? assign_work+0x16c/0x240
worker_thread+0x5e6/0x1010
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x2c3/0x3a0
? trace_irq_enable.constprop.0+0xce/0x110
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Enabling CONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT revealed the following assertion to
trigger:

assertion failed: !list_empty(&ordered->list), in fs/btrfs/zoned.c:1815

This indicates, that we're missing the checksums list on the
ordered_extent. As btrfs/167 is doing a NOCOW write this is to be
expected.

Further analysis with drgn confirmed the assumption:

inode = prog.crashed_thread().stack_trace()[11]['ordered'].inode
btrfs_inode = drgn.container_of(inode, "struct btrfs_inode",
"vfs_inode")
print(btrfs_inode.flags)
(u32)1

As zoned emulation mode simulates conventional zones on regular devices,
we cannot use zone-append for writing. But we're only attaching dummy
checksums if we're doing a zone-append write.

So for NOCOW zoned data writes on conventional zones, also attach a
dummy checksum.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 12, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 12, 2024
Last updated Jan 7, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-40962

GHSA ID

GHSA-hx58-3fx6-hp8m

Source code

No known source code

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