Description

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

btrfs: fix deadlock with fiemap and extent locking

While working on the patchset to remove extent locking I got a lockdep
splat with fiemap and pagefaulting with my new extent lock replacement
lock.

This deadlock exists with our normal code, we just don't have lockdep
annotations with the extent locking so we've never noticed it.

Since we're copying the fiemap extent to user space on every iteration
we have the chance of pagefaulting. Because we hold the extent lock for
the entire range we could mkwrite into a range in the file that we have
mmap'ed. This would deadlock with the following stack trace

[<0>] lock_extent+0x28d/0x2f0
[<0>] btrfs_page_mkwrite+0x273/0x8a0
[<0>] do_page_mkwrite+0x50/0xb0
[<0>] do_fault+0xc1/0x7b0
[<0>] __handle_mm_fault+0x2fa/0x460
[<0>] handle_mm_fault+0xa4/0x330
[<0>] do_user_addr_fault+0x1f4/0x800
[<0>] exc_page_fault+0x7c/0x1e0
[<0>] asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
[<0>] rep_movs_alternative+0x33/0x70
[<0>] _copy_to_user+0x49/0x70
[<0>] fiemap_fill_next_extent+0xc8/0x120
[<0>] emit_fiemap_extent+0x4d/0xa0
[<0>] extent_fiemap+0x7f8/0xad0
[<0>] btrfs_fiemap+0x49/0x80
[<0>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x3e1/0xb50
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x94/0x1a0
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

I wrote an fstest to reproduce this deadlock without my replacement lock
and verified that the deadlock exists with our existing locking.

To fix this simply don't take the extent lock for the entire ...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-35784

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (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/ded566b4637f1b6b4c9ba74e7d0b8493e93f19cf
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89bca7fe6382d61e88c67a0b0e7bce315986fb8b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0ad381fa7690244802aed119b478b4bdafc31dd

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