High · published November 19, 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: reinitialize delayed ref list after deleting it from the list
At insert_delayed_ref() if we need to update the action of an existing
ref to BTRFS_DROP_DELAYED_REF, we delete the ref from its ref head's
ref_add_list using list_del(), which leaves the ref's add_list member
not reinitialized, as list_del() sets the next and prev members of the
list to LIST_POISON1 and LIST_POISON2, respectively.
If later we end up calling drop_delayed_ref() against the ref, which can
happen during merging or when destroying delayed refs due to a transaction
abort, we can trigger a crash since at drop_delayed_ref() we call
list_empty() against the ref's add_list, which returns false since
the list was not reinitialized after the list_del() and as a consequence
we call list_del() again at drop_delayed_ref(). This results in an
invalid list access since the next and prev members are set to poison
pointers, resulting in a splat if CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED and
CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST are set or invalid poison pointer dereferences
otherwise.
So fix this by deleting from the list with list_del_init() instead.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 4.10, < 4.19.324 | 4.19.324 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.286 | 5.4.286 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.230 | 5.10.230 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.172 | 5.15.172 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.117 | 6.1.117 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.61 | 6.6.61 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.7, < 6.11.8 | 6.11.8 |
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