Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: send: fix buffer overflow detection when copying path to cache entry
Starting with commit c0247d289e73 ("btrfs: send: annotate struct
name_cache_entry with __counted_by()") we annotated the variable length
array "name" from the name_cache_entry structure with __counted_by() to
improve overflow detection. However that alone was not correct, because
the length of that array does not match the "name_len" field - it matches
that plus 1 to include the NUL string terminator, so that makes a
fortified kernel think there's an overflow and report a splat like this:
strcpy: detected buffer overflow: 20 byte write of buffer size 19
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 3310 at __fortify_report+0x45/0x50
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 3310 Comm: btrfs Not tainted 6.11.0-prnet #1
Hardware name: CompuLab Ltd. sbc-ihsw/Intense-PC2 (IPC2), BIOS IPC2_3.330.7 X64 03/15/2018
RIP: 0010:__fortify_report+0x45/0x50
Code: 48 8b 34 (...)
RSP: 0018:ffff97ebc0d6f650 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 7749924ef60fa600 RBX: ffff8bf5446a521a RCX: 0000000000000027
RDX: 00000000ffffdfff RSI: ffff97ebc0d6f548 RDI: ffff8bf84e7a1cc8
RBP: ffff8bf548574080 R08: ffffffffa8c40e10 R09: 0000000000005ffd
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: ffffffffa8c70e10 R12: ffff8bf551eef400
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000013 R15: 00000000000003a8
FS: 00007fae144de8c0(0000) GS:ffff8bf84e780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fae14691690 CR3: 00000001027a2003 CR4: 00000000001706f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __warn+0x12a/0x1d0
? __fortify_report+0x45/0x50
? report_bug+0x154/0x1c0
? handle_bug+0x42/0x70
? exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x50
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
? __fortify_report+0x45/0x50
__fortify_panic+0x9/0x10
__get_cur_name_and_parent+0x3bc/0x3c0
get_cur_path+0x207/0x3b0
send_extent_data+0x709/0x10d0
? find_parent_nodes+0x22df/0x25d0
? mas_nomem+0x13/0x90
? mtree_insert_range+0xa5/0x110
? btrfs_lru_cache_store+0x5f/0x1e0
? iterate_extent_inodes+0x52d/0x5a0
process_extent+0xa96/0x11a0
? __pfx_lookup_backref_cache+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_store_backref_cache+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_iterate_backrefs+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_check_extent_item+0x10/0x10
changed_cb+0x6fa/0x930
? tree_advance+0x362/0x390
? memcmp_extent_buffer+0xd7/0x160
send_subvol+0xf0a/0x1520
btrfs_ioctl_send+0x106b/0x11d0
? __pfx___clone_root_cmp_sort+0x10/0x10
_btrfs_ioctl_send+0x1ac/0x240
btrfs_ioctl+0x75b/0x850
__se_sys_ioctl+0xca/0x150
do_syscall_64+0x85/0x160
? __count_memcg_events+0x69/0x100
? handle_mm_fault+0x1327/0x15c0
? __se_sys_rt_sigprocmask+0xf1/0x180
? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x75/0xa0
? do_syscall_64+0x91/0x160
? do_user_addr_fault+0x21d/0x630
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7fae145eeb4f
Code: 00 48 89 (...)
RSP: 002b:00007ffdf1cb09b0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 00007fae145eeb4f
RDX: 00007ffdf1cb0ad0 RSI: 0000000040489426 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00000000000078fe R08: 00007fae144006c0 R09: 00007ffdf1cb0927
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffdf1cb1ce8
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 000055c499fab2e0 R15: 0000000000000004
</TASK>
Fix this by not storing the NUL string terminator since we don't actually
need it for name cache entries, this way "name_len" corresponds to the
actual size of the "name" array. This requires marking the "name" array
field with __nonstring and using memcpy() instead of strcpy() as
recommended by the guidelines at:
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 6.11 | 6.11.3 |
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 | 6.11.4-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | linux | 6.11.4-1 | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | linux-oem-6.11 | 6.11.0-1015.15 | USN-7310-1 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | linux-raspi-realtime | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | linux-riscv +32 | No fix yet | — |
| 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 | — |
openSUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | kernel-source | 6.11.8-1.1 | openSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | kernel-source-longterm | 6.12.11-1.1 | openSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1 |
Advisories 4
- WID-SEC-2024-3251 Linux Kernel: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of Service BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Nov 11, 2026
- USN-7310-1 linux-oem-6.11 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Nov 3, 2026
- openSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1 kernel-devel-longterm-6.12.11-1.1 on GA media SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Feb 4, 2026
- openSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1 kernel-devel-6.11.8-1.1 on GA media SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Feb 4, 2026