CVE: CVE-2024-26644
Published: 2024-03-26
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: don't abort filesystem when attempting to snapshot deleted subvolume

If the source file descriptor to the snapshot ioctl refers to a deleted
subvolume, we get the following abort:

  BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -2)
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 833 at fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1875 create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
  Modules linked in: pata_acpi btrfs ata_piix libata scsi_mod virtio_net blake2b_generic xor net_failover virtio_rng failover scsi_common rng_core raid6_pq libcrc32c
  CPU: 0 PID: 833 Comm: t_snapshot_dele Not tainted 6.7.0-rc6 #2
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-1.fc39 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
  RSP: 0018:ffffa09c01337af8 EFLAGS: 00010282
  RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX: ffff9982053e7c78 RCX: [PII_REDACTED]
  RDX: ffff99827dc20848 RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: ffff99827dc20840
  RBP: ffffa09c01337c00 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: ffffa09c01337998
  R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: ffffffffb96da248 R12: fffffffffffffffe
  R13: ffff99820535bb28 R14: ffff99820b7bd000 R15: ffff99820381ea80
  FS:  00007fe20aadabc0(0000) GS:ffff99827dc00000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
  CR2: 0000559a120b502f CR3:[PII_REDACTED]5b6000 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]0006f0
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   ? create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
   ? __warn+0x81/0x130
   ? create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
   ? report_bug+0x171/0x1a0
   ? handle_bug+0x3a/0x70
   ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
   ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
   ? create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
   ? create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
   create_pending_snapshots+0x92/0xc0 [btrfs]
   btrfs_commit_transaction+0x66b/0xf40 [btrfs]
   btrfs_mksubvol+0x301/0x4d0 [btrfs]
   btrfs_mksnapshot+0x80/0xb0 [btrfs]
   __btrfs_ioctl_snap_create+0x1c2/0x1d0 [btrfs]
   btrfs_ioctl_snap_create_v2+0xc4/0x150 [btrfs]
   btrfs_ioctl+0x8a6/0x2650 [btrfs]
   ? kmem_cache_free+0x22/0x340
   ? do_sys_openat2+0x97/0xe0
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0x46/0xf0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
  RIP: 0033:0x7fe20abe83af
  RSP: 002b:00007ffe6eff1360 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: [PII_REDACTED]
  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: 00007fe20abe83af
  RDX: 00007ffe6eff23c0 RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
  RBP: [PII_REDACTED] R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: 00007fe20ad16cd0
  R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
  R13: 00007ffe6eff13c0 R14: 00007fe20ad45000 R15: 0000559a120b6d58
   </TASK>
  ---[ end trace [PII_REDACTED] ]---
  BTRFS: error (device vdc: state A) in create_pending_snapshot:1875: errno=-2 No such entry
  BTRFS info (device vdc: state EA): forced readonly
  BTRFS warning (device vdc: state EA): Skipping commit of aborted transaction.
  BTRFS: error (device vdc: state EA) in cleanup_transaction:2055: errno=-2 No such entry

This happens because create_pending_snapshot() initializes the new root
item as a copy of the source root item. This includes the refs field,
which is 0 for a deleted subvolume. The call to btrfs_insert_root()
therefore inserts a root with refs == 0. btrfs_get_new_fs_root() then
finds the root and returns -ENOENT if refs == 0, which causes
create_pending_snapshot() to abort.

Fix it by checking the source root's refs before attempting the
snapshot, but after locking subvol_sem to avoid racing with deletion.
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-908
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0877497dc97834728e1b528ddf1e1c484292c29c; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bdf872bcfe629a6202ffd6641615a8ed00e8464; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e6bca99e8d88d989a7cde4c064abea552d5219b