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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 10, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

btrfs: lock the inode in shared mode before starting fiemap

Currently fiemap does not take the inode's lock (VFS lock), it only locks
a file range in the inode's io tree. This however can lead to a deadlock
if we have a concurrent fsync on the file and fiemap code triggers a fault
when accessing the user space buffer with fiemap_fill_next_extent(). The
deadlock happens on the inode's i_mmap_lock semaphore, which is taken both
by fsync and btrfs_page_mkwrite(). This deadlock was recently reported by
syzbot and triggers a trace like the following:

task:syz-executor361 state:D stack:20264 pid:5668 ppid:5119 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:

context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5293 [inline]
__schedule+0x995/0xe20 kernel/sched/core.c:6606
schedule+0xcb/0x190 kernel/sched/core.c:6682
wait_on_state fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:707 [inline]
wait_extent_bit+0x577/0x6f0 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:751
lock_extent+0x1c2/0x280 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:1742
find_lock_delalloc_range+0x4e6/0x9c0 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:488
writepage_delalloc+0x1ef/0x540 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:1863
__extent_writepage+0x736/0x14e0 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:2174
extent_write_cache_pages+0x983/0x1220 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:3091
extent_writepages+0x219/0x540 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:3211
do_writepages+0x3c3/0x680 mm/page-writeback.c:2581
filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x11e/0x170 mm/filemap.c:388
__filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:421 [inline]
filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x175/0x200 mm/filemap.c:439
btrfs_fdatawrite_range fs/btrfs/file.c:3850 [inline]
start_ordered_ops fs/btrfs/file.c:1737 [inline]
btrfs_sync_file+0x4ff/0x1190 fs/btrfs/file.c:1839
generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:2885 [inline]
btrfs_do_write_iter+0xcd3/0x1280 fs/btrfs/file.c:1684
call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2189 [inline]
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
vfs_write+0x7dc/0xc50 fs/read_write.c:584
ksys_write+0x177/0x2a0 fs/read_write.c:637
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7f7d4054e9b9
RSP: 002b:00007f7d404fa2f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7d405d87a0 RCX: 00007f7d4054e9b9
RDX: 0000000000000090 RSI: 0000000020000000 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007f7d405a51d0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 61635f65646f6e69
R13: 65646f7475616f6e R14: 7261637369646f6e R15: 00007f7d405d87a8

INFO: task syz-executor361:5697 blocked for more than 145 seconds.
Not tainted 6.2.0-rc3-syzkaller-00376-g7c6984405241 #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-executor361 state:D stack:21216 pid:5697 ppid:5119 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:

context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5293 [inline]
__schedule+0x995/0xe20 kernel/sched/core.c:6606
schedule+0xcb/0x190 kernel/sched/core.c:6682
rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x5f9/0x930 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1095
__down_read_common+0x54/0x2a0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1260
btrfs_page_mkwrite+0x417/0xc80 fs/btrfs/inode.c:8526
do_page_mkwrite+0x19e/0x5e0 mm/memory.c:2947
wp_page_shared+0x15e/0x380 mm/memory.c:3295
handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:4949 [inline]
__handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5073 [inline]
handle_mm_fault+0x1b79/0x26b0 mm/memory.c:5219
do_user_addr_fault+0x69b/0xcb0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1428
handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1519 [inline]
exc_page_fault+0x7a/0x110 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1575
asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:570
RIP: 0010:copy_user_short_string+0xd/0x40 arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S:233
Code: 74 0a 89 (...)
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000570f330 EFLAGS: 000502
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 21, 2024
Last updated Jan 10, 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

0.043%
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-52737

GHSA ID

GHSA-x5vm-26pp-xff5

Source code

No known source code

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