CVE-2023-54032
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
24/12/2025
Last modified:
29/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
btrfs: fix race when deleting quota root from the dirty cow roots list<br />
<br />
When disabling quotas we are deleting the quota root from the list<br />
fs_info->dirty_cowonly_roots without taking the lock that protects it,<br />
which is struct btrfs_fs_info::trans_lock. This unsynchronized list<br />
manipulation may cause chaos if there&#39;s another concurrent manipulation<br />
of this list, such as when adding a root to it with<br />
ctree.c:add_root_to_dirty_list().<br />
<br />
This can result in all sorts of weird failures caused by a race, such as<br />
the following crash:<br />
<br />
[337571.278245] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000108: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI<br />
[337571.278933] CPU: 1 PID: 115447 Comm: btrfs Tainted: G W 6.4.0-rc6-btrfs-next-134+ #1<br />
[337571.279153] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014<br />
[337571.279572] RIP: 0010:commit_cowonly_roots+0x11f/0x250 [btrfs]<br />
[337571.279928] Code: 85 38 06 00 (...)<br />
[337571.280363] RSP: 0018:ffff9f63446efba0 EFLAGS: 00010206<br />
[337571.280582] RAX: ffff942d98ec2638 RBX: ffff9430b82b4c30 RCX: 0000000449e1c000<br />
[337571.280798] RDX: dead000000000100 RSI: ffff9430021e4900 RDI: 0000000000036070<br />
[337571.281015] RBP: ffff942d98ec2000 R08: ffff942d98ec2000 R09: 000000000000015b<br />
[337571.281254] R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff942fe8fbf600<br />
[337571.281476] R13: ffff942dabe23040 R14: ffff942dabe20800 R15: ffff942d92cf3b48<br />
[337571.281723] FS: 00007f478adb7340(0000) GS:ffff94349fa40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br />
[337571.281950] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br />
[337571.282184] CR2: 00007f478ab9a3d5 CR3: 000000001e02c001 CR4: 0000000000370ee0<br />
[337571.282416] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000<br />
[337571.282647] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400<br />
[337571.282874] Call Trace:<br />
[337571.283101] <br />
[337571.283327] ? __die_body+0x1b/0x60<br />
[337571.283570] ? die_addr+0x39/0x60<br />
[337571.283796] ? exc_general_protection+0x22e/0x430<br />
[337571.284022] ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30<br />
[337571.284251] ? commit_cowonly_roots+0x11f/0x250 [btrfs]<br />
[337571.284531] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x42e/0xf90 [btrfs]<br />
[337571.284803] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30<br />
[337571.285031] ? release_extent_buffer+0x103/0x130 [btrfs]<br />
[337571.285305] reset_balance_state+0x152/0x1b0 [btrfs]<br />
[337571.285578] btrfs_balance+0xa50/0x11e0 [btrfs]<br />
[337571.285864] ? __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x14a/0x410<br />
[337571.286086] btrfs_ioctl+0x249a/0x3320 [btrfs]<br />
[337571.286358] ? mod_objcg_state+0xd2/0x360<br />
[337571.286577] ? refill_obj_stock+0xb0/0x160<br />
[337571.286798] ? seq_release+0x25/0x30<br />
[337571.287016] ? __rseq_handle_notify_resume+0x3ba/0x4b0<br />
[337571.287235] ? percpu_counter_add_batch+0x2e/0xa0<br />
[337571.287455] ? __x64_sys_ioctl+0x88/0xc0<br />
[337571.287675] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x88/0xc0<br />
[337571.287901] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90<br />
[337571.288126] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc<br />
[337571.288352] RIP: 0033:0x7f478aaffe9b<br />
<br />
So fix this by locking struct btrfs_fs_info::trans_lock before deleting<br />
the quota root from that list.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/365f318da7384cbac5de6b9c098914888a4d63e7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/679c34821ab7cd93c8ccb96fbf57fc44848a78bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6819bb0b8552dcc5f82ca606c8911b8c67e0628f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6da229754099518cfa27cbfcd0fd042618785fad
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ba0da31dd4a8fd24d416016c538a95a5664ff02
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a53d78d9a8551e72c46ded23e8b0a56e55d32032
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5cdc4012efa808e07d073c11dc2f366b5394ad3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b31cb5a6eb7a48b0a7bfdf06832b1fd5088d8c79



