In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: do not BUG_ON() when freeing tree block after error When freeing a tree block, at btrfs_free_tree_block(), if we fail to create a delayed reference we don’t deal with the error and just do a BUG_ON(). The error most likely to happen is -ENOMEM, and we have a comment mentioning that only -ENOMEM can happen, but that is not true, because in case qgroups are enabled any error returned from btrfs_qgroup_trace_extent_post() (can be -EUCLEAN or anything returned from btrfs_search_slot() for example) can be propagated back to btrfs_free_tree_block(). So stop doing a BUG_ON() and return the error to the callers and make them abort the transaction to prevent leaking space. Syzbot was triggering this, likely due to memory allocation failure injection.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
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Debian | 12 | all | linux | <= 6.1.106-3 | linux_6.1.106-3_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | linux | <= 5.10.223-1 | linux_5.10.223-1_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | linux | < 6.10.6-1 | linux_6.10.6-1_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | linux | < 6.10.6-1 | linux_6.10.6-1_all.deb |