CVE-2024-49867 (published 2024-10-21)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: wait for fixup workers before stopping cleaner kthread during umount

During unmount, at close_ctree(), we have the following steps in this order:

1) Park the cleaner kthread - this doesn't destroy the kthread, it basically
   halts its execution (wake ups against it work but do nothing);

2) We stop the cleaner kthread - this results in freeing the respective
   struct task_struct;

3) We call btrfs_stop_all_workers() which waits for any jobs running in all
   the work queues and then free the work queues.

Syzbot reported a case where a fixup worker resulted in a crash when doing
a delayed iput on its inode while attempting to wake up the cleaner at
btrfs_add_delayed_iput(), because the task_struct of the cleaner kthread
was already freed. This can happen during unmount because we don't wait
for any fixup workers still running before we call kthread_stop() against
the cleaner kthread, which stops and free all its resources.

Fix this by waiting for any fixup workers at close_ctree() before we call
kthread_stop() against the cleaner and run pending delayed iputs.

The stack traces reported by syzbot were the following:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x77/0x2050 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5065
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880272a8a18 by task kworker/u8:3/52

  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 52 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-syzkaller #0
  Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
  Workqueue: btrfs-fixup btrfs_work_helper
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
   dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
   print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
   print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488
   kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601
   __lock_acquire+0x77/0x2050 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5065
   lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
   __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
   _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xd5/0x120 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
   class_raw_spinlock_irqsave_constructor include/linux/spinlock.h:551 [inline]
   try_to_wake_up+0xb0/0x1480 kernel/sched/core.c:4154
   btrfs_writepage_fixup_worker+0xc16/0xdf0 fs/btrfs/inode.c:2842
   btrfs_work_helper+0x390/0xc50 fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:314
   process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
   process_scheduled_works+0xa63/0x1850 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
   worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
   kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
   ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
   </TASK>

  Allocated by task 2:
   kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
   kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
   unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:319 [inline]
   __kasan_slab_alloc+0x66/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:345
   kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:247 [inline]
   slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4086 [inline]
   slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4135 [inline]
   kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x16b/0x320 mm/slub.c:4187
   alloc_task_struct_node kernel/fork.c:180 [inline]
   dup_task_struct+0x57/0x8c0 kernel/fork.c:1107
   copy_process+0x5d1/0x3d50 kernel/fork.c:2206
   kernel_clone+0x223/0x880 kernel/fork.c:2787
   kernel_thread+0x1bc/0x240 kernel/fork.c:2849
   create_kthread kernel/kthread.c:412 [inline]
   kthreadd+0x60d/0x810 kernel/kthread.c:765
   ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

  Freed by task 61:
   kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
   kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
   kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:579
   poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
   __kasan_slab_free+0x59/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
   kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
   slab_free_h
---truncated---
Severity: MEDIUM (CVSS 3.1 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Weakness: CWE-416
Affected vendors: linux
Affected products: linux_kernel