Vulnerability: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the btrfs_rm_device function in fs/btrfs/volumes.c in the Linux Kernel, where triggering the bug requires ‘CAP_SYS_ADMIN’. This flaw allows a local attacker to crash the system or leak kernel internal information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Vulnerability ID: CVE-2021-3739
CWE: CWE-476
Severity score: 4.9
Project: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Published: 2022-03-10
File: fs/btrfs/volumes.c
Commit message: btrfs: fix NULL pointer dereference when deleting device by invalid id

[BUG]
It's easy to trigger NULL pointer dereference, just by removing a
non-existing device id:

 # mkfs.btrfs -f -m single -d single /dev/test/scratch1 \
				     /dev/test/scratch2
 # mount /dev/test/scratch1 /mnt/btrfs
 # btrfs device remove 3 /mnt/btrfs

Then we have the following kernel NULL pointer dereference:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 9 PID: 649 Comm: btrfs Not tainted 5.14.0-rc3-custom+ #35
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
 RIP: 0010:btrfs_rm_device+0x4de/0x6b0 [btrfs]
  btrfs_ioctl+0x18bb/0x3190 [btrfs]
  ? lock_is_held_type+0xa5/0x120
  ? find_held_lock.constprop.0+0x2b/0x80
  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x201/0x6a0
  ? lock_release+0xd2/0x2d0
  ? __x64_sys_ioctl+0x83/0xb0
  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x83/0xb0
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

[CAUSE]
Commit a27a94c2b0c7 ("btrfs: Make btrfs_find_device_by_devspec return
btrfs_device directly") moves the "missing" device path check into
btrfs_rm_device().

But btrfs_rm_device() itself can have case where it only receives
@devid, with NULL as @device_path.

In that case, calling strcmp() on NULL will trigger the NULL pointer
dereference.

Before that commit, we handle the "missing" case inside
btrfs_find_device_by_devspec(), which will not check @device_path at all
if @devid is provided, thus no way to trigger the bug.

[FIX]
Before calling strcmp(), also make sure @device_path is not NULL.

Fixes: a27a94c2b0c7 ("btrfs: Make btrfs_find_device_by_devspec return btrfs_device directly")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+
Reported-by: butt3rflyh4ck <butterflyhuangxx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Commit author: Qu Wenruo

Vulnerable version (before fix):
 int btrfs_rm_device(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, const char *device_path,  	if (IS_ERR(device)) { 		if (PTR_ERR(device) == -ENOENT && 		    strcmp(device_path, "missing") == 0) 			ret = BTRFS_ERROR_DEV_MISSING_NOT_FOUND; 		else 			ret = PTR_ERR(device);

Fixed version (after fix):
 int btrfs_rm_device(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, const char *device_path,  	if (IS_ERR(device)) { 		if (PTR_ERR(device) == -ENOENT && 		    device_path && strcmp(device_path, "missing") == 0) 			ret = BTRFS_ERROR_DEV_MISSING_NOT_FOUND; 		else 			ret = PTR_ERR(device);

Patch:
patch: @@ -2074,7 +2074,7 @@ int btrfs_rm_device(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, const char *device_path,
 
 	if (IS_ERR(device)) {
 		if (PTR_ERR(device) == -ENOENT &&
-		    strcmp(device_path, "missing") == 0)
+		    device_path && strcmp(device_path, "missing") == 0)
 			ret = BTRFS_ERROR_DEV_MISSING_NOT_FOUND;
 		else
 			ret = PTR_ERR(device);
path: fs/btrfs/volumes.c