CVE-2022-49075

btrfs: fix qgroup reserve overflow the qgroup limit

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix qgroup reserve overflow the qgroup limit

We use extent_changeset->bytes_changed in qgroup_reserve_data() to record how many bytes we set for EXTENT_QGROUP_RESERVED state. Currently the bytes_changed is set as "unsigned int", and it will overflow if we try to fallocate a range larger than 4GiB. The result is we reserve less bytes and eventually break the qgroup limit.

Unlike regular buffered/direct write, which we use one changeset for each ordered extent, which can never be larger than 256M. For fallocate, we use one changeset for the whole range, thus it no longer respects the 256M per extent limit, and caused the problem.

The following example test script reproduces the problem:

$ cat qgroup-overflow.sh #!/bin/bash

DEV=/dev/sdj MNT=/mnt/sdj

mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV mount $DEV $MNT

# Set qgroup limit to 2GiB. btrfs quota enable $MNT btrfs qgroup limit 2G $MNT

# Try to fallocate a 3GiB file. This should fail. echo echo "Try to fallocate a 3GiB file..." fallocate -l 3G $MNT/3G.file

# Try to fallocate a 5GiB file. echo echo "Try to fallocate a 5GiB file..." fallocate -l 5G $MNT/5G.file

# See we break the qgroup limit. echo sync btrfs qgroup show -r $MNT

umount $MNT

When running the test:

$ ./qgroup-overflow.sh (...)

Try to fallocate a 3GiB file... fallocate: fallocate failed: Disk quota exceeded

Try to fallocate a 5GiB file...

qgroupid         rfer         excl     max_rfer --------         ----         ----     -------- 0/5           5.00GiB      5.00GiB      2.00GiB

Since we have no control of how bytes_changed is used, it's better to set it to u64.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d to before 0355387ea5b02d353c9415613fab908fac5c52a6Affected
  • 7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d to before f3d97b22a708bf9e3f3ac2ba232bcefd0b0c136bAffected
  • 7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d to before 44277c50fdba5019ca25bfad1b71e2561b0de11bAffected
  • 7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d to before 82ae73ac963cee877ce34f7c31b2b456b516e96cAffected
  • 7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d to before 4b98799e181b4326a613108cf37acc1f55d21b45Affected
  • 7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d to before 6bfff81286d4491f02dad7814bae5c77c9ad2320Affected
  • 7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d to before 7941b74ed49b6db25efbef2256ebef843c11a010Affected
  • 7bc329c1836866ffac8b2613f780a51b3ffe786d to before b642b52d0b50f4d398cb4293f64992d0eed2e2ceAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.13Affected
  • before 4.13Not affected
  • 4.14.276 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.238 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.189 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.111 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.34 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.16.20 through 5.16.*Not affected
  • 5.17.3 through 5.17.*Not affected
  • 5.18 and laterNot affected

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