CVE-2021-47508

2024-05-2415:15:11

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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linux kernel

btrfs

vulnerability

cve-2021-47508

fix

memory leak

direct io

write

memory issue

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

JSON

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

btrfs: free exchange changeset on failures

Fstests runs on my VMs have show several kmemleak reports like the following.

unreferenced object 0xffff88811ae59080 (size 64):
comm “xfs_io”, pid 12124, jiffies 4294987392 (age 6.368s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 c0 1c 00 00 00 00 00 ff cf 1c 00 00 00 00 00 …
90 97 e5 1a 81 88 ff ff 90 97 e5 1a 81 88 ff ff …
backtrace:
[<00000000ac0176d2>] ulist_add_merge+0x60/0x150 [btrfs]
[<0000000076e9f312>] set_state_bits+0x86/0xc0 [btrfs]
[<0000000014fe73d6>] set_extent_bit+0x270/0x690 [btrfs]
[<000000004f675208>] set_record_extent_bits+0x19/0x20 [btrfs]
[<00000000b96137b1>] qgroup_reserve_data+0x274/0x310 [btrfs]
[<0000000057e9dcbb>] btrfs_check_data_free_space+0x5c/0xa0 [btrfs]
[<0000000019c4511d>] btrfs_delalloc_reserve_space+0x1b/0xa0 [btrfs]
[<000000006d37e007>] btrfs_dio_iomap_begin+0x415/0x970 [btrfs]
[<00000000fb8a74b8>] iomap_iter+0x161/0x1e0
[<0000000071dff6ff>] __iomap_dio_rw+0x1df/0x700
[<000000002567ba53>] iomap_dio_rw+0x5/0x20
[<0000000072e555f8>] btrfs_file_write_iter+0x290/0x530 [btrfs]
[<000000005eb3d845>] new_sync_write+0x106/0x180
[<000000003fb505bf>] vfs_write+0x24d/0x2f0
[<000000009bb57d37>] __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x69/0xa0
[<000000003eba3fdf>] do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90

In case brtfs_qgroup_reserve_data() or btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata()
fail the allocated extent_changeset will not be freed.

So in btrfs_check_data_free_space() and btrfs_delalloc_reserve_space()
free the allocated extent_changeset to get rid of the allocated memory.

The issue currently only happens in the direct IO write path, but only
after 65b3c08606e5 (“btrfs: fix ENOSPC failure when attempting direct IO
write into NOCOW range”), and also at defrag_one_locked_target(). Every
other place is always calling extent_changeset_free() even if its call
to btrfs_delalloc_reserve_space() or btrfs_check_data_free_space() has
failed.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.15.0–5.15.8

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.16.0≥

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "fs/btrfs/delalloc-space.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "ca06c5cb1b6d",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "da5e817d9d75",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "fs/btrfs/delalloc-space.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "5.15.8",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.16",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]