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CVE-2024-35956

2024-05-2000:00:00
ubuntu.com
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5
linux
kernel
btrfs
qgroup
prealloc
reservation
fix
vulnerability

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs:
qgroup: fix qgroup prealloc rsv leak in subvolume operations Create
subvolume, create snapshot and delete subvolume all use
btrfs_subvolume_reserve_metadata() to reserve metadata for the changes done
to the parent subvolume’s fs tree, which cannot be mediated in the normal
way via start_transaction. When quota groups (squota or qgroups) are
enabled, this reserves qgroup metadata of type PREALLOC. Once the operation
is associated to a transaction, we convert PREALLOC to PERTRANS, which gets
cleared in bulk at the end of the transaction. However, the error paths of
these three operations were not implementing this lifecycle correctly. They
unconditionally converted the PREALLOC to PERTRANS in a generic cleanup
step regardless of errors or whether the operation was fully associated to
a transaction or not. This resulted in error paths occasionally converting
this rsv to PERTRANS without calling record_root_in_trans successfully,
which meant that unless that root got recorded in the transaction by some
other thread, the end of the transaction would not free that root’s
PERTRANS, leaking it. Ultimately, this resulted in hitting a WARN in
CONFIG_BTRFS_DEBUG builds at unmount for the leaked reservation. The fix is
to ensure that every qgroup PREALLOC reservation observes the following
properties: 1. any failure before record_root_in_trans is called
successfully results in freeing the PREALLOC reservation. 2. after
record_root_in_trans, we convert to PERTRANS, and now the transaction owns
freeing the reservation. This patch enforces those properties on the three
operations. Without it, generic/269 with squotas enabled at mkfs time would
fail in ~5-10 runs on my system. With this patch, it ran successfully 1000
times in a row.

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

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