Description

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

btrfs: qgroup: fix qgroup prealloc rsv leak in subvolume operations

Create subvolume, create snapshot and delete subvolume all use
btrfs_subvolume_reserve_metadata() to reserve metadata for the changes
done to the parent subvolume's fs tree, which cannot be mediated in the
normal way via start_transaction. When quota groups (squota or qgroups)
are enabled, this reserves qgroup metadata of type PREALLOC. Once the
operation is associated to a transaction, we convert PREALLOC to
PERTRANS, which gets cleared in bulk at the end of the transaction.

However, the error paths of these three operations were not implementing
this lifecycle correctly. They unconditionally converted the PREALLOC to
PERTRANS in a generic cleanup step regardless of errors or whether the
operation was fully associated to a transaction or not. This resulted in
error paths occasionally converting this rsv to PERTRANS without calling
record_root_in_trans successfully, which meant that unless that root got
recorded in the transaction by some other thread, the end of the
transaction would not free that root's PERTRANS, leaking it. Ultimately,
this resulted in hitting a WARN in CONFIG_BTRFS_DEBUG builds at unmount
for the leaked reservation.

The fix is to ensure that every qgroup PREALLOC reservation observes the
following properties:

1. any failure before record_root_in_trans is called successfully
results in freeing the PREALLOC reser...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-35956

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.83% (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/945559be6e282a812dc48f7bcd5adc60901ea4a0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14431815a4ae4bcd7c7a68b6a64c66c7712d27c9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c95336f5d8eb9ab79cd7306d71b6d0477363f8c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74e97958121aa1f5854da6effba70143f051b0cd

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