CVE-2021-47599

2024-06-1915:15:54

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

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linux kernel

btrfs

vulnerability

warning

fix

device list

rcu protection

cve

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

JSON

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

btrfs: use latest_dev in btrfs_show_devname

The test case btrfs/238 reports the warning below:

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 481 at fs/btrfs/super.c:2509 btrfs_show_devname+0x104/0x1e8 [btrfs]
CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G W O 5.14.0-rc1-custom #72
Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
Call trace:
btrfs_show_devname+0x108/0x1b4 [btrfs]
show_mountinfo+0x234/0x2c4
m_show+0x28/0x34
seq_read_iter+0x12c/0x3c4
vfs_read+0x29c/0x2c8
ksys_read+0x80/0xec
__arm64_sys_read+0x28/0x34
invoke_syscall+0x50/0xf8
do_el0_svc+0x88/0x138
el0_svc+0x2c/0x8c
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xe4
el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c

Reason:
While btrfs_prepare_sprout() moves the fs_devices::devices into
fs_devices::seed_list, the btrfs_show_devname() searches for the devices
and found none, leading to the warning as in above.

Fix:
latest_dev is updated according to the changes to the device list.
That means we could use the latest_dev->name to show the device name in
/proc/self/mounts, the pointer will be always valid as it’s assigned
before the device is deleted from the list in remove or replace.
The RCU protection is sufficient as the device structure is freed after
synchronization.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.15.0–5.15.11

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.16.0≥

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "fs/btrfs/super.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "e342c2558016",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "6605fd2f394b",
        "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/super.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "5.15.11",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.16",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]