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btrfs: always do the basic checks for btrfs_qgroup_inherit structure

Published Jul 30, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

btrfs: always do the basic checks for btrfs_qgroup_inherit structure

[BUG]
Syzbot reports the following regression detected by KASAN:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in btrfs_qgroup_inherit+0x42e/0x2e20 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:3277
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88814628ca50 by task syz-executor318/5171

CPU: 0 PID: 5171 Comm: syz-executor318 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00010-g2ab795141095 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:114
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488
kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601
btrfs_qgroup_inherit+0x42e/0x2e20 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:3277
create_pending_snapshot+0x1359/0x29b0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1854
create_pending_snapshots+0x195/0x1d0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1922
btrfs_commit_transaction+0xf20/0x3740 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2382
create_snapshot+0x6a1/0x9e0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:875
btrfs_mksubvol+0x58f/0x710 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1029
btrfs_mksnapshot+0xb5/0xf0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1075
__btrfs_ioctl_snap_create+0x387/0x4b0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1340
btrfs_ioctl_snap_create_v2+0x1f2/0x3a0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1422
btrfs_ioctl+0x99e/0xc60
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fcbf1992509
RSP: 002b:00007fcbf1928218 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fcbf1a1f618 RCX: 00007fcbf1992509
RDX: 0000000020000280 RSI: 0000000050009417 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fcbf1a1f610 R08: 00007ffea1298e97 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fcbf19eb660
R13: 00000000200002b8 R14: 00007fcbf19e60c0 R15: 0030656c69662f2e
</TASK>

And it also pinned it down to commit b5357cb268c4 ("btrfs: qgroup: do not
check qgroup inherit if qgroup is disabled").

[CAUSE]
That offending commit skips the whole qgroup inherit check if qgroup is
not enabled.

But that also skips the very basic checks like
num_ref_copies/num_excl_copies and the structure size checks.

Meaning if a qgroup enable/disable race is happening at the background,
and we pass a btrfs_qgroup_inherit structure when the qgroup is
disabled, the check would be completely skipped.

Then at the time of transaction commitment, qgroup is re-enabled and
btrfs_qgroup_inherit() is going to use the incorrect structure and
causing the above KASAN error.

[FIX]
Make btrfs_qgroup_check_inherit() only skip the source qgroup checks.
So that even if invalid btrfs_qgroup_inherit structure is passed in, we
can still reject invalid ones no matter if qgroup is enabled or not.

Furthermore we do already have an extra safety inside
btrfs_qgroup_inherit(), which would just ignore invalid qgroup sources,
so even if we only skip the qgroup source check we're still safe.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.8.10 – < 6.9, 6.9 6.9

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.9.9-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.9.9-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-48.48 USN-7089-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1018.20 USN-7089-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1017.20 USN-7089-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp +1 6.8.0-1017.19 USN-7095-1, USN-7089-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1013.17 USN-7089-6
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1002.4 USN-7156-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1015.15 USN-7089-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-48.48.3 USN-7089-7
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1017.19.1 USN-7095-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.8 6.8.0-1016.16 USN-7089-4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1015.16 USN-7089-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1014.16 USN-7089-5
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv 6.8.0-48.48.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1018.19~22.04.1 USN-7089-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1017.20~22.04.1 USN-7090-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 +1 6.8.0-1017.19~22.04.1 USN-7095-1, USN-7089-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-48.48~22.04.1 USN-7089-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-48.48.3~22.04.1 USN-7089-7
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1015.15~22.04.1 USN-7089-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +31 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-48.48.1~22.04.2 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +13 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2013.14 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1011.11 —

Advisories 11

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