CVE-2024-42231

btrfs: zoned: fix calc_available_free_space() for zoned mode

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 30, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jul 30, 2024

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Description

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

btrfs: zoned: fix calc_available_free_space() for zoned mode

calc_available_free_space() returns the total size of metadata (or system) block groups, which can be allocated from unallocated disk space. The logic is wrong on zoned mode in two places.

First, the calculation of data_chunk_size is wrong. We always allocate one zone as one chunk, and no partial allocation of a zone. So, we should use zone_size (= data_sinfo->chunk_size) as it is.

Second, the result "avail" may not be zone aligned. Since we always allocate one zone as one chunk on zoned mode, returning non-zone size aligned bytes will result in less pressure on the async metadata reclaim process.

This is serious for the nearly full state with a large zone size device. Allowing over-commit too much will result in less async reclaim work and end up in ENOSPC. We can align down to the zone size to avoid that.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • cb6cbab79055ca207ad88bc54226b48ececdcef0 to before 8548903b1999bba02a2b894ad750ab8eb1f40307Affected
  • cb6cbab79055ca207ad88bc54226b48ececdcef0 to before 64d2c847ba380e07b9072d65a50aa6469d2aa43fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.7Affected
  • before 6.7Not affected
  • 6.9.9 through 6.9.*Not affected
  • 6.10 and laterNot affected

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