CVE-2024-27080

btrfs: fix race when detecting delalloc ranges during fiemap

published May 1, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

btrfs: fix race when detecting delalloc ranges during fiemap

For fiemap we recently stopped locking the target extent range for the

whole duration of the fiemap call, in order to avoid a deadlock in a

scenario where the fiemap buffer happens to be a memory mapped range of

the same file. This use case is very unlikely to be useful in practice but

it may be triggered by fuzz testing (syzbot, etc).

This however introduced a race that makes us miss delalloc ranges for

file regions that are currently holes, so the caller of fiemap will not

be aware that there's data for some file regions. This can be quite

serious for some use cases - for example in coreutils versions before 9.0,

the cp program used fiemap to detect holes and data in the source file,

copying only regions with data (extents or delalloc) from the source file

to the destination file in order to preserve holes (see the documentation

for its --sparse command line option). This means that if cp was used

with a source file that had delalloc in a hole, the destination file could

end up without that data, which is effectively a data loss issue, if it

happened to hit the race described below.

The race happens like this:

1) Fiemap is called, without the FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC flag, for a file that

has delalloc in the file range [64M, 65M[, which is currently a hole;

2) Fiemap locks the inode in shared mode, then starts iterating the

inode's subvolume tree searching for file extent items, without having

the whole fiemap target range locked in the inode's io tree - the

change introduced recently by commit b0ad381fa769 ("btrfs: fix

deadlock with fiemap and extent locking"). It only locks ranges in

the io tree when it finds a hole or prealloc extent since that

commit;

3) Note that fiemap clones each leaf before using it, and this is to

avoid deadlocks when locking a file range in the inode's io tree and

the fiemap buffer is memory mapped to some file, because writing

to the page with btrfs_page_mkwrite() will wait on any ordered extent

for the page's range and the ordered extent needs to lock the range

and may need to modify the same leaf, therefore leading to a deadlock

on the leaf;

4) While iterating the file extent items in the cloned leaf before

finding the hole in the range [64M, 65M[, the delalloc in that range

is flushed and its ordered extent completes - meaning the corresponding

file extent item is in the inode's subvolume tree, but not present in

the cloned leaf that fiemap is iterating over;

5) When fiemap finds the hole in the [64M, 65M[ range by seeing the gap in

the cloned leaf (or a file extent item with disk_bytenr == 0 in case

the NO_HOLES feature is not enabled), it will lock that file range in

the inode's io tree and then search for delalloc by checking for the

EXTENT_DELALLOC bit in the io tree for that range and ordered extents

(with btrfs_find_delalloc_in_range()). But it finds nothing since the

delalloc in that range was already flushed and the ordered extent

completed and is gone - as a result fiemap will not report that there's

delalloc or an extent for the range [64M, 65M[, so user space will be

mislead into thinking that there's a hole in that range.

This could actually be sporadically triggered with test case generic/094

from fstests, which reports a missing extent/delalloc range like this:

generic/094 2s ... - output mismatch (see /home/fdmanana/git/hub/xfstests/results//generic/094.out.bad)

--- tests/generic/094.out 2020-06-10 19:29:03.830519425 +0100

+++ /home/fdmanana/git/hub/xfstests/results//generic/094.out.bad 2024-02-28 11:00:00.381071525 +0000

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@

QA output created by 094

fiemap run with sync

fiemap run without sync

+ERROR: couldn't find extent at 7

+map is 'HHDDHPPDPHPH'

+logical: [ 5.. 6] phys:

---truncated---

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00188 · 8.0th percentile
Published
2024-05-01T13:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 13:05Z
    btrfs: fix race when detecting delalloc ranges during fiemap
    cvelistv5