CVE-2024-46840

btrfs: clean up our handling of refs == 0 in snapshot delete

published September 27, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

btrfs: clean up our handling of refs == 0 in snapshot delete

In reada we BUG_ON(refs == 0), which could be unkind since we aren't

holding a lock on the extent leaf and thus could get a transient

incorrect answer. In walk_down_proc we also BUG_ON(refs == 0), which

could happen if we have extent tree corruption. Change that to return

-EUCLEAN. In do_walk_down() we catch this case and handle it correctly,

however we return -EIO, which -EUCLEAN is a more appropriate error code.

Finally in walk_up_proc we have the same BUG_ON(refs == 0), so convert

that to proper error handling. Also adjust the error message so we can

actually do something with the information.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00264 · 17.3th percentile
Published
2024-09-27T12:39Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 SEP 12:39Z
    btrfs: clean up our handling of refs == 0 in snapshot delete
    cvelistv5