CVE-2021-47508

published 2024-05-24

CVE-2021-47508: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: free exchange changeset on failures Fstests runs on my VMs have show several…

Priority P4 19 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C N I N A H

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:
[] ulist_add_merge+0x60/0x150 [btrfs]
[] set_state_bits+0x86/0xc0 [btrfs]
[] set_extent_bit+0x270/0x690 [btrfs]
[] set_record_extent_bits+0x19/0x20 [btrfs]
[] qgroup_reserve_data+0x274/0x310 [btrfs]
[] btrfs_check_data_free_space+0x5c/0xa0 [btrfs]
[] btrfs_delalloc_reserve_space+0x1b/0xa0 [btrfs]
[] btrfs_dio_iomap_begin+0x415/0x970 [btrfs]
[] iomap_iter+0x161/0x1e0
[] __iomap_dio_rw+0x1df/0x700
[] iomap_dio_rw+0x5/0x20
[] btrfs_file_write_iter+0x290/0x530 [btrfs]
[] new_sync_write+0x106/0x180
[] vfs_write+0x24d/0x2f0
[] __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x69/0xa0
[] 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

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	linux	< linux 5.15.15-1 (bookworm)	linux 5.15.15-1 (bookworm)
linux	linux	—	—
linux	linux	>= 364ecf3651e0862152c8b340d7cb3021dc0122c7 < ca06c5cb1b6dbfe67655b33c02fc394d65824519	ca06c5cb1b6dbfe67655b33c02fc394d65824519
linux	linux	>= 364ecf3651e0862152c8b340d7cb3021dc0122c7 < da5e817d9d75422eaaa05490d0b9a5e328fc1a51	da5e817d9d75422eaaa05490d0b9a5e328fc1a51
linux	linux_kernel	< 5.15.8	5.15.8
linux	linux_kernel	—	—
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 5.15.15-1	5.15.15-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 5.15.15-1	5.15.15-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 5.15.15-1	5.15.15-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 5.5 MEDIUM

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