CVE-2022-48901

btrfs: do not start relocation until in progress drops are done

published August 22, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

btrfs: do not start relocation until in progress drops are done

We hit a bug with a recovering relocation on mount for one of our file

systems in production. I reproduced this locally by injecting errors

into snapshot delete with balance running at the same time. This

presented as an error while looking up an extent item

WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1501 at fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:866 lookup_inline_extent_backref+0x647/0x680

CPU: 5 PID: 1501 Comm: btrfs-balance Not tainted 5.16.0-rc8+ #8

RIP: 0010:lookup_inline_extent_backref+0x647/0x680

RSP: 0018:ffffae0a023ab960 EFLAGS: 00010202

RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000

RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000000c RDI: 0000000000000000

RBP: ffff943fd2a39b60 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001

R10: 0001434088152de0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000001d05000

R13: ffff943fd2a39b60 R14: ffff943fdb96f2a0 R15: ffff9442fc923000

FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff944e9eb40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 00007f1157b1fca8 CR3: 000000010f092000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0

Call Trace:

<TASK>

insert_inline_extent_backref+0x46/0xd0

__btrfs_inc_extent_ref.isra.0+0x5f/0x200

? btrfs_merge_delayed_refs+0x164/0x190

__btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x561/0xfa0

? btrfs_search_slot+0x7b4/0xb30

? btrfs_update_root+0x1a9/0x2c0

btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x73/0x1f0

? btrfs_update_root+0x1a9/0x2c0

btrfs_commit_transaction+0x50/0xa50

? btrfs_update_reloc_root+0x122/0x220

prepare_to_merge+0x29f/0x320

relocate_block_group+0x2b8/0x550

btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x1a6/0x350

btrfs_relocate_chunk+0x27/0xe0

btrfs_balance+0x777/0xe60

balance_kthread+0x35/0x50

? btrfs_balance+0xe60/0xe60

kthread+0x16b/0x190

? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40

ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

</TASK>

Normally snapshot deletion and relocation are excluded from running at

the same time by the fs_info->cleaner_mutex. However if we had a

pending balance waiting to get the ->cleaner_mutex, and a snapshot

deletion was running, and then the box crashed, we would come up in a

state where we have a half deleted snapshot.

Again, in the normal case the snapshot deletion needs to complete before

relocation can start, but in this case relocation could very well start

before the snapshot deletion completes, as we simply add the root to the

dead roots list and wait for the next time the cleaner runs to clean up

the snapshot.

Fix this by setting a bit on the fs_info if we have any DEAD_ROOT's that

had a pending drop_progress key. If they do then we know we were in the

middle of the drop operation and set a flag on the fs_info. Then

balance can wait until this flag is cleared to start up again.

If there are DEAD_ROOT's that don't have a drop_progress set then we're

safe to start balance right away as we'll be properly protected by the

cleaner_mutex.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00210 · 10.6th percentile
Published
2024-08-22T01:30Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 AUG 01:30Z
    btrfs: do not start relocation until in progress drops are done
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