Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: don’t abort filesystem when attempting to snapshot deleted subvolume
If the source file descriptor to the snapshot ioctl refers to a deleted subvolume, we get the following abort:
BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -2)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 833 at fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1875 create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
Modules linked in: pata_acpi btrfs ata_piix libata scsi_mod virtio_net blake2b_generic xor net_failover virtio_rng failover scsi_common rng_core raid6_pq libcrc32c
CPU: 0 PID: 833 Comm: t_snapshot_dele Not tainted 6.7.0-rc6 #2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-1.fc39 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
RSP: 0018:ffffa09c01337af8 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9982053e7c78 RCX: 0000000000000027
RDX: ffff99827dc20848 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff99827dc20840
RBP: ffffa09c01337c00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffa09c01337998
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffffb96da248 R12: fffffffffffffffe
R13: ffff99820535bb28 R14: ffff99820b7bd000 R15: ffff99820381ea80
FS: 00007fe20aadabc0(0000) GS:ffff99827dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000559a120b502f CR3: 00000000055b6000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
This happens because create_pending_snapshot() initializes the new root item as a copy of the source root item. This includes the refs field, which is 0 for a deleted subvolume. The call to btrfs_insert_root() therefore inserts a root with refs == 0. btrfs_get_new_fs_root() then finds the root and returns -ENOENT if refs == 0, which causes create_pending_snapshot() to abort.
Fix it by checking the source root’s refs before attempting the snapshot, but after locking subvol_sem to avoid racing with deletion.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0 (+15 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: don’t abort filesystem when attempting to snapshot deleted subvolume
If the source file descriptor to the snapshot ioctl refers to a deleted subvolume, we get the following abort:
BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -2)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 833 at fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1875 create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
Modules linked in: pata_acpi btrfs ata_piix libata scsi_mod virtio_net blake2b_generic xor net_failover virtio_rng failover scsi_common rng_core raid6_pq libcrc32c
CPU: 0 PID: 833 Comm: t_snapshot_dele Not tainted 6.7.0-rc6 #2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-1.fc39 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs]
RSP: 0018:ffffa09c01337af8 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9982053e7c78 RCX: 0000000000000027
RDX: ffff99827dc20848 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff99827dc20840
RBP: ffffa09c01337c00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffa09c01337998
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffffb96da248 R12: fffffffffffffffe
R13: ffff99820535bb28 R14: ffff99820b7bd000 R15: ffff99820381ea80
FS: 00007fe20aadabc0(0000) GS:ffff99827dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000559a120b502f CR3: 00000000055b6000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
This happens because create_pending_snapshot() initializes the new root item as a copy of the source root item. This includes the refs field, which is 0 for a deleted subvolume. The call to btrfs_insert_root() therefore inserts a root with refs == 0. btrfs_get_new_fs_root() then finds the root and returns -ENOENT if refs == 0, which causes create_pending_snapshot() to abort.
Fix it by checking the source root’s refs before attempting the snapshot, but after locking subvol_sem to avoid racing with deletion.