CVE-2022-50067
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/06/2025
Last modified:
18/06/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
btrfs: unset reloc control if transaction commit fails in prepare_to_relocate()<br />
<br />
In btrfs_relocate_block_group(), the rc is allocated. Then<br />
btrfs_relocate_block_group() calls<br />
<br />
relocate_block_group()<br />
prepare_to_relocate()<br />
set_reloc_control()<br />
<br />
that assigns rc to the variable fs_info->reloc_ctl. When<br />
prepare_to_relocate() returns, it calls<br />
<br />
btrfs_commit_transaction()<br />
btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups()<br />
btrfs_alloc_path()<br />
kmem_cache_zalloc()<br />
<br />
which may fail for example (or other errors could happen). When the<br />
failure occurs, btrfs_relocate_block_group() detects the error and frees<br />
rc and doesn&#39;t set fs_info->reloc_ctl to NULL. After that, in<br />
btrfs_init_reloc_root(), rc is retrieved from fs_info->reloc_ctl and<br />
then used, which may cause a use-after-free bug.<br />
<br />
This possible bug can be triggered by calling btrfs_ioctl_balance()<br />
before calling btrfs_ioctl_defrag().<br />
<br />
To fix this possible bug, in prepare_to_relocate(), check if<br />
btrfs_commit_transaction() fails. If the failure occurs,<br />
unset_reloc_control() is called to set fs_info->reloc_ctl to NULL.<br />
<br />
The error log in our fault-injection testing is shown as follows:<br />
<br />
[ 58.751070] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in btrfs_init_reloc_root+0x7ca/0x920 [btrfs]<br />
...<br />
[ 58.753577] Call Trace:<br />
...<br />
[ 58.755800] kasan_report+0x45/0x60<br />
[ 58.756066] btrfs_init_reloc_root+0x7ca/0x920 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.757304] record_root_in_trans+0x792/0xa10 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.757748] btrfs_record_root_in_trans+0x463/0x4f0 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.758231] start_transaction+0x896/0x2950 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.758661] btrfs_defrag_root+0x250/0xc00 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.759083] btrfs_ioctl_defrag+0x467/0xa00 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.759513] btrfs_ioctl+0x3c95/0x114e0 [btrfs]<br />
...<br />
[ 58.768510] Allocated by task 23683:<br />
[ 58.768777] ____kasan_kmalloc+0xb5/0xf0<br />
[ 58.769069] __kmalloc+0x227/0x3d0<br />
[ 58.769325] alloc_reloc_control+0x10a/0x3d0 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.769755] btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x7aa/0x1e20 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.770228] btrfs_relocate_chunk+0xf1/0x760 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.770655] __btrfs_balance+0x1326/0x1f10 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.771071] btrfs_balance+0x3150/0x3d30 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.771472] btrfs_ioctl_balance+0xd84/0x1410 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.771902] btrfs_ioctl+0x4caa/0x114e0 [btrfs]<br />
...<br />
[ 58.773337] Freed by task 23683:<br />
...<br />
[ 58.774815] kfree+0xda/0x2b0<br />
[ 58.775038] free_reloc_control+0x1d6/0x220 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.775465] btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x115c/0x1e20 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.775944] btrfs_relocate_chunk+0xf1/0x760 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.776369] __btrfs_balance+0x1326/0x1f10 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.776784] btrfs_balance+0x3150/0x3d30 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.777185] btrfs_ioctl_balance+0xd84/0x1410 [btrfs]<br />
[ 58.777621] btrfs_ioctl+0x4caa/0x114e0 [btrfs]<br />
...
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d741afed0bac206640cc64d77b97853283cf719
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78f8c2370e3d33e35f23bdc648653d779aeacb6e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85f02d6c856b9f3a0acf5219de6e32f58b9778eb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e546674031fc1576da501e27a8fd165222e5a37
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b60e862e133f646f19023ece1d476d630a660de1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcb11fe0a0a9cca2b7425191b9bf30dc29f2ad0f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff0e8ed8dfb584575cffc1561f17a1d094e8565b