Description

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

btrfs: do not clear page dirty inside extent_write_locked_range()

[BUG]
For subpage + zoned case, the following workload can lead to rsv data
leak at unmount time:

# mkfs.btrfs -f -s 4k $dev
# mount $dev $mnt
# fsstress -w -n 8 -d $mnt -s 1709539240
0/0: fiemap - no filename
0/1: copyrange read - no filename
0/2: write - no filename
0/3: rename - no source filename
0/4: creat f0 x:0 0 0
0/4: creat add id=0,parent=-1
0/5: writev f0[259 1 0 0 0 0] [778052,113,965] 0
0/6: ioctl(FIEMAP) f0[259 1 0 0 224 887097] [1294220,2291618343991484791,0x10000] -1
0/7: dwrite - xfsctl(XFS_IOC_DIOINFO) f0[259 1 0 0 224 887097] return 25, fallback to stat()
0/7: dwrite f0[259 1 0 0 224 887097] [696320,102400] 0
# umount $mnt

The dmesg includes the following rsv leak detection warning (all call
trace skipped):

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:8653 btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1e0/0x200 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:8654 btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1a8/0x200 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:8660 btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1a0/0x200 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
BTRFS info (device sda): last unmount of filesystem 1b4abba9-de34-4f07-9e7f-157...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-44972

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 8.27% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-44972
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba4dedb71356638d8284e34724daca944be70368
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3b403209f767e5857c1b9fda66726e6e6ffc99f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97713b1a2ced1e4a2a6c40045903797ebd44d7e0

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