Description

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

btrfs: lock the inode in shared mode before starting fiemap

Currently fiemap does not take the inode's lock (VFS lock), it only locks
a file range in the inode's io tree. This however can lead to a deadlock
if we have a concurrent fsync on the file and fiemap code triggers a fault
when accessing the user space buffer with fiemap_fill_next_extent(). The
deadlock happens on the inode's i_mmap_lock semaphore, which is taken both
by fsync and btrfs_page_mkwrite(). This deadlock was recently reported by
syzbot and triggers a trace like the following:

task:syz-executor361 state:D stack:20264 pid:5668 ppid:5119 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:

context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5293 [inline]
__schedule+0x995/0xe20 kernel/sched/core.c:6606
schedule+0xcb/0x190 kernel/sched/core.c:6682
wait_on_state fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:707 [inline]
wait_extent_bit+0x577/0x6f0 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:751
lock_extent+0x1c2/0x280 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:1742
find_lock_delalloc_range+0x4e6/0x9c0 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:488
writepage_delalloc+0x1ef/0x540 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:1863
__extent_writepage+0x736/0x14e0 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:2174
extent_write_cache_pages+0x983/0x1220 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:3091
extent_writepages+0x219/0x540 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:3211
do_writepages+0x3c3/0x680 mm/page-writeback.c:2581
filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x11e/0x170 mm/filemap.c:388
__filem...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-52737

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.48% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8c594da79bc0244e610a70594e824a401802be1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/519b7e13b5ae8dd38da1e52275705343be6bb508

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