Description

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

btrfs: do proper folio cleanup when run_delalloc_nocow() failed

[BUG]
With CONFIG_DEBUG_VM set, test case generic/476 has some chance to crash
with the following VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO():

BTRFS error (device dm-3): cow_file_range failed, start 1146880 end 1253375 len 106496 ret -28
BTRFS error (device dm-3): run_delalloc_nocow failed, start 1146880 end 1253375 len 106496 ret -28
page: refcount:4 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000592787cc index:0x12 pfn:0x10664
aops:btrfs_aops [btrfs] ino:101 dentry name(?):"f1774"
flags: 0x2fffff80004028(uptodate|lru|private|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xfffff)
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio))
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kernel BUG at mm/page-writeback.c:2992!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 3943513 Comm: kworker/u24:15 Tainted: G OE 6.12.0-rc7-custom+ #87
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
Workqueue: events_unbound btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space [btrfs]
pc : folio_clear_dirty_for_io+0x128/0x258
lr : folio_clear_dirty_for_io+0x128/0x258
Call trace:
folio_clear_dirty_for_io+0x128/0x258
btrfs_folio_clamp_clear_dirty+0x80/0xd0 [btrfs]
__process_folios_contig+0x154/0x268 [btrfs]
extent_clear_unlock_delalloc+0x5c/0x80 [btrfs]
run_delalloc_nocow+0x5f8/0x760 [btrfs]
btrfs_run_de...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-57975

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux, Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 3.82% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-27 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57975
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ae72abbf91eb172ce3a838a4dc34be3c9707296
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2434533f1c963e7317c45880c98287e5bed98325
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2b47df81c8e20a8e8cd94f0d7df211137ae94ed

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