CVE-2023-54032

btrfs: fix race when deleting quota root from the dirty cow roots list

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

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

btrfs: fix race when deleting quota root from the dirty cow roots list

When disabling quotas we are deleting the quota root from the list fs_info->dirty_cowonly_roots without taking the lock that protects it, which is struct btrfs_fs_info::trans_lock. This unsynchronized list manipulation may cause chaos if there's another concurrent manipulation of this list, such as when adding a root to it with ctree.c:add_root_to_dirty_list().

This can result in all sorts of weird failures caused by a race, such as the following crash:

[337571.278245] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000108: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [337571.278933] CPU: 1 PID: 115447 Comm: btrfs Tainted: G W 6.4.0-rc6-btrfs-next-134+ #1 [337571.279153] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [337571.279572] RIP: 0010:commit_cowonly_roots+0x11f/0x250 [btrfs] [337571.279928] Code: 85 38 06 00 (...) [337571.280363] RSP: 0018:ffff9f63446efba0 EFLAGS: 00010206 [337571.280582] RAX: ffff942d98ec2638 RBX: ffff9430b82b4c30 RCX: 0000000449e1c000 [337571.280798] RDX: dead000000000100 RSI: ffff9430021e4900 RDI: 0000000000036070 [337571.281015] RBP: ffff942d98ec2000 R08: ffff942d98ec2000 R09: 000000000000015b [337571.281254] R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff942fe8fbf600 [337571.281476] R13: ffff942dabe23040 R14: ffff942dabe20800 R15: ffff942d92cf3b48 [337571.281723] FS: 00007f478adb7340(0000) GS:ffff94349fa40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [337571.281950] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [337571.282184] CR2: 00007f478ab9a3d5 CR3: 000000001e02c001 CR4: 0000000000370ee0 [337571.282416] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [337571.282647] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [337571.282874] Call Trace: [337571.283101] <TASK> [337571.283327] ? __die_body+0x1b/0x60 [337571.283570] ? die_addr+0x39/0x60 [337571.283796] ? exc_general_protection+0x22e/0x430 [337571.284022] ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30 [337571.284251] ? commit_cowonly_roots+0x11f/0x250 [btrfs] [337571.284531] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x42e/0xf90 [btrfs] [337571.284803] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30 [337571.285031] ? release_extent_buffer+0x103/0x130 [btrfs] [337571.285305] reset_balance_state+0x152/0x1b0 [btrfs] [337571.285578] btrfs_balance+0xa50/0x11e0 [btrfs] [337571.285864] ? __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x14a/0x410 [337571.286086] btrfs_ioctl+0x249a/0x3320 [btrfs] [337571.286358] ? mod_objcg_state+0xd2/0x360 [337571.286577] ? refill_obj_stock+0xb0/0x160 [337571.286798] ? seq_release+0x25/0x30 [337571.287016] ? __rseq_handle_notify_resume+0x3ba/0x4b0 [337571.287235] ? percpu_counter_add_batch+0x2e/0xa0 [337571.287455] ? __x64_sys_ioctl+0x88/0xc0 [337571.287675] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x88/0xc0 [337571.287901] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [337571.288126] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc [337571.288352] RIP: 0033:0x7f478aaffe9b

So fix this by locking struct btrfs_fs_info::trans_lock before deleting the quota root from that list.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • bed92eae26ccf280d1a2168b7509447b56675a27 to before 365f318da7384cbac5de6b9c098914888a4d63e7Affected
  • bed92eae26ccf280d1a2168b7509447b56675a27 to before 6da229754099518cfa27cbfcd0fd042618785fadAffected
  • bed92eae26ccf280d1a2168b7509447b56675a27 to before 679c34821ab7cd93c8ccb96fbf57fc44848a78bcAffected
  • bed92eae26ccf280d1a2168b7509447b56675a27 to before 6819bb0b8552dcc5f82ca606c8911b8c67e0628fAffected
  • bed92eae26ccf280d1a2168b7509447b56675a27 to before 7ba0da31dd4a8fd24d416016c538a95a5664ff02Affected
  • bed92eae26ccf280d1a2168b7509447b56675a27 to before a53d78d9a8551e72c46ded23e8b0a56e55d32032Affected
  • bed92eae26ccf280d1a2168b7509447b56675a27 to before a5cdc4012efa808e07d073c11dc2f366b5394ad3Affected
  • bed92eae26ccf280d1a2168b7509447b56675a27 to before b31cb5a6eb7a48b0a7bfdf06832b1fd5088d8c79Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.6Affected
  • before 3.6Not affected
  • 4.14.322 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.291 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.251 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.188 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.121 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.39 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.4.4 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

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