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CVE-2024-46687

btrfs: fix a use-after-free when hitting errors inside btrfs_submit_chunk()

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Descriptions

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

btrfs: fix a use-after-free when hitting errors inside btrfs_submit_chunk()

[BUG]
There is an internal report that KASAN is reporting use-after-free, with
the following backtrace:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in btrfs_check_read_bio+0xa68/0xb70 [btrfs]
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881117cec28 by task kworker/u16:2/45
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 45 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc2-next-20240805-default+ #76
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-3-gd478f380-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: btrfs-endio btrfs_end_bio_work [btrfs]
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x61/0x80
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x5e/0x2f0
print_report+0x118/0x216
kasan_report+0x11d/0x1f0
btrfs_check_read_bio+0xa68/0xb70 [btrfs]
process_one_work+0xce0/0x12a0
worker_thread+0x717/0x1250
kthread+0x2e3/0x3c0
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20

Allocated by task 20917:
kasan_save_stack+0x37/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x7d/0x80
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x16e/0x3e0
mempool_alloc_noprof+0x12e/0x310
bio_alloc_bioset+0x3f0/0x7a0
btrfs_bio_alloc+0x2e/0x50 [btrfs]
submit_extent_page+0x4d1/0xdb0 [btrfs]
btrfs_do_readpage+0x8b4/0x12a0 [btrfs]
btrfs_readahead+0x29a/0x430 [btrfs]
read_pages+0x1a7/0xc60
page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x2ad/0x560
filemap_get_pages+0x629/0xa20
filemap_read+0x335/0xbf0
vfs_read+0x790/0xcb0
ksys_read+0xfd/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Freed by task 20917:
kasan_save_stack+0x37/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x37/0x50
__kasan_slab_free+0x4b/0x60
kmem_cache_free+0x214/0x5d0
bio_free+0xed/0x180
end_bbio_data_read+0x1cc/0x580 [btrfs]
btrfs_submit_chunk+0x98d/0x1880 [btrfs]
btrfs_submit_bio+0x33/0x70 [btrfs]
submit_one_bio+0xd4/0x130 [btrfs]
submit_extent_page+0x3ea/0xdb0 [btrfs]
btrfs_do_readpage+0x8b4/0x12a0 [btrfs]
btrfs_readahead+0x29a/0x430 [btrfs]
read_pages+0x1a7/0xc60
page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x2ad/0x560
filemap_get_pages+0x629/0xa20
filemap_read+0x335/0xbf0
vfs_read+0x790/0xcb0
ksys_read+0xfd/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

[CAUSE]
Although I cannot reproduce the error, the report itself is good enough
to pin down the cause.

The call trace is the regular endio workqueue context, but the
free-by-task trace is showing that during btrfs_submit_chunk() we
already hit a critical error, and is calling btrfs_bio_end_io() to error
out. And the original endio function called bio_put() to free the whole
bio.

This means a double freeing thus causing use-after-free, e.g.:

1. Enter btrfs_submit_bio() with a read bio
The read bio length is 128K, crossing two 64K stripes.

2. The first run of btrfs_submit_chunk()

2.1 Call btrfs_map_block(), which returns 64K
2.2 Call btrfs_split_bio()
Now there are two bios, one referring to the first 64K, the other
referring to the second 64K.
2.3 The first half is submitted.

3. The second run of btrfs_submit_chunk()

3.1 Call btrfs_map_block(), which by somehow failed
Now we call btrfs_bio_end_io() to handle the error

3.2 btrfs_bio_end_io() calls the original endio function
Which is end_bbio_data_read(), and it calls bio_put() for the
original bio.

Now the original bio is freed.

4. The submitted first 64K bio finished
Now we call into btrfs_check_read_bio() and tries to advance the bio
iter.
But since the original bio (thus its iter) is already freed, we
trigger the above use-after free.

And even if the memory is not poisoned/corrupted, we will later call
the original endio function, causing a double freeing.

[FIX]
Instead of calling btrfs_bio_end_io(), call btrfs_orig_bbio_end_io(),
which has the extra check on split bios and do the pr
---truncated---

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  • 2024-09-11 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-09-13 CVE Published
  • 2024-09-15 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-11-05 CVE Updated
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Linux
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>= 6.3 < 6.6.49
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Linux
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>= 6.3 < 6.10.8
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Linux
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