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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | linux | 6.9.9-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | linux | 6.9.9-1 | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- WID-SEC-2024-1722 Linux Kernel: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen nicht spezifizierten Angriff BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Nov 9, 2026
- USN-7156-1 linux-gkeop vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Oct 29, 2026
- USN-7095-1 linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Oct 29, 2026
- USN-7090-1 linux-azure-6.8 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Oct 29, 2026
- USN-7089-3 linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Oct 26, 2026
- USN-7089-6 linux-gke vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Oct 26, 2026
- USN-7089-7 linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Oct 26, 2026
- USN-7089-2 linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-ibm vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Oct 26, 2026
- USN-7089-1 linux, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-hwe-6.8 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Oct 26, 2026
- USN-7089-5 linux-raspi vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Oct 26, 2026
- USN-7089-4 linux-oem-6.8 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Oct 26, 2026