CVE-2024-56759

btrfs: fix use-after-free when COWing tree bock and tracing is enabled

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jan 6, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

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

btrfs: fix use-after-free when COWing tree bock and tracing is enabled

When a COWing a tree block, at btrfs_cow_block(), and we have the tracepoint trace_btrfs_cow_block() enabled and preemption is also enabled (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y), we can trigger a use-after-free in the COWed extent buffer while inside the tracepoint code. This is because in some paths that call btrfs_cow_block(), such as btrfs_search_slot(), we are holding the last reference on the extent buffer @buf so btrfs_force_cow_block() drops the last reference on the @buf extent buffer when it calls free_extent_buffer_stale(buf), which schedules the release of the extent buffer with RCU. This means that if we are on a kernel with preemption, the current task may be preempted before calling trace_btrfs_cow_block() and the extent buffer already released by the time trace_btrfs_cow_block() is called, resulting in a use-after-free.

Fix this by moving the trace_btrfs_cow_block() from btrfs_cow_block() to btrfs_force_cow_block() before the COWed extent buffer is freed. This also has a side effect of invoking the tracepoint in the tree defrag code, at defrag.c:btrfs_realloc_node(), since btrfs_force_cow_block() is called there, but this is fine and it was actually missing there.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 3083ee2e18b701122a3b841db83448543a87a583 to before ba5120a2fb5f23b4d39d302e181aa5d4e28a90d1Affected
  • 3083ee2e18b701122a3b841db83448543a87a583 to before 526ff5b27f090fb15040471f892cd2c9899ce314Affected
  • 3083ee2e18b701122a3b841db83448543a87a583 to before 66376f1a73cba57fd0af2631d7888605b738e499Affected
  • 3083ee2e18b701122a3b841db83448543a87a583 to before 9a466b8693b9add05de99af00c7bdff8259ecf19Affected
  • 3083ee2e18b701122a3b841db83448543a87a583 to before c3a403d8ce36f5a809a492581de5ad17843e4701Affected
  • 3083ee2e18b701122a3b841db83448543a87a583 to before 44f52bbe96dfdbe4aca3818a2534520082a07040Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.4Affected
  • before 3.4Not affected
  • 5.10.233 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.176 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.124 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.70 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.8 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

References

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