CVE: CVE-2021-46958
Published: 2024-02-27
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix race between transaction aborts and fsyncs leading to use-after-free

There is a race between a task aborting a transaction during a commit,
a task doing an fsync and the transaction kthread, which leads to an
use-after-free of the log root tree. When this happens, it results in a
stack trace like the following:

  BTRFS info (device dm-0): forced readonly
  BTRFS warning (device dm-0): Skipping commit of aborted transaction.
  BTRFS: error (device dm-0) in cleanup_transaction:1958: errno=-5 IO failure
  BTRFS warning (device dm-0): lost page write due to IO error on /dev/mapper/error-test (-5)
  BTRFS warning (device dm-0): Skipping commit of aborted transaction.
  BTRFS warning (device dm-0): direct IO failed ino 261 rw 0,0 sector 0xa4e8 len 4096 err no 10
  BTRFS error (device dm-0): error writing primary super block to device 1
  BTRFS warning (device dm-0): direct IO failed ino 261 rw 0,0 sector 0x12e000 len 4096 err no 10
  BTRFS warning (device dm-0): direct IO failed ino 261 rw 0,0 sector 0x12e008 len 4096 err no 10
  BTRFS warning (device dm-0): direct IO failed ino 261 rw 0,0 sector 0x12e010 len 4096 err no 10
  BTRFS: error (device dm-0) in write_all_supers:4110: errno=-5 IO failure (1 errors while writing supers)
  BTRFS: error (device dm-0) in btrfs_sync_log:3308: errno=-5 IO failure
  general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6b68: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PTI
  CPU: 2 PID: 2458471 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 5.12.0-rc5-btrfs-next-84 #1
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:__mutex_lock+0x139/0xa40
  Code: c0 74 19 (...)
  RSP: 0018:ffff9f18830d7b00 EFLAGS: 00010202
  RAX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b68 RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: [PII_REDACTED]
  RDX: ffffffffb9c54d13 RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
  RBP: ffff9f18830d7bc0 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: [PII_REDACTED]
  R10: ffff9f18830d7be0 R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: ffff8c6cd199c040
  R13: ffff8c6c95821358 R14: 00000000fffffffb R15: ffff8c6cbcf01358
  FS:  00007fa9140c2b80(0000) GS:ffff8c6fac600000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
  CR2: 00007fa913d52000 CR3: 000000013d2b4003 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]370ee0
  DR0: [PII_REDACTED] DR1: [PII_REDACTED] DR2: [PII_REDACTED]
  DR3: [PII_REDACTED] DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: [PII_REDACTED]
  Call Trace:
   ? __btrfs_handle_fs_error+0xde/0x146 [btrfs]
   ? btrfs_sync_log+0x7c1/0xf20 [btrfs]
   ? btrfs_sync_log+0x7c1/0xf20 [btrfs]
   btrfs_sync_log+0x7c1/0xf20 [btrfs]
   btrfs_sync_file+0x40c/0x580 [btrfs]
   do_fsync+0x38/0x70
   __x64_sys_fsync+0x10/0x20
   do_syscall_64+0x33/0x80
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
  RIP: 0033:0x7fa9142a55c3
  Code: 8b 15 09 (...)
  RSP: 002b:00007fff26278d48 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX:[PII_REDACTED]00004a
  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000563c83cb4560 RCX: 00007fa9142a55c3
  RDX: 00007fff26278cb0 RSI: 00007fff26278cb0 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
  RBP: [PII_REDACTED] R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: 00007fff26278d5c
  R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
  R13: 00007fff26278de0 R14: 00007fff26278d96 R15: 0000563c83ca57c0
  Modules linked in: btrfs dm_zero dm_snapshot dm_thin_pool (...)
  ---[ end trace ee2f1b19327d791d ]---

The steps that lead to this crash are the following:

1) We are at transaction N;

2) We have two tasks with a transaction handle attached to transaction N.
   Task A and Task B. Task B is doing an fsync;

3) Task B is at btrfs_sync_log(), and has saved fs_info->log_root_tree
   into a local variable named 'log_root_tree' at the top of
   btrfs_sync_log(). Task B is about to call write_all_supers(), but
   before that...

4) Task A calls btrfs_commit_transaction(), and after it sets the
   transaction state to TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_START, an error happens before
   it w
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 4.7 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-416
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/061dde8245356d8864d29e25207aa4daa0be4d3c; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/633f7f216663587f17601eaa1cf2ac3d5654874c; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4794be7b00b7eda4b45fffd283ab7d76df7e5d6