Vulnerability · Published May 21, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2023-52737btrfs: lock the inode in shared mode before starting fiemap

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 12% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 88.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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: <TASK> 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 __filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:421 [inline] filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x175/0x200 mm/filemap.c:439 btrfs_fdatawrite_range fs/btrfs/file.c:3850 [inline] start_ordered_ops fs/btrfs/file.c:1737 [inline] btrfs_sync_file+0x4ff/0x1190 fs/btrfs/file.c:1839 generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:2885 [inline] btrfs_do_write_iter+0xcd3/0x1280 fs/btrfs/file.c:1684 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2189 [inline] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline] vfs_write+0x7dc/0xc50 fs/read_write.c:584 ksys_write+0x177/0x2a0 fs/read_write.c:637 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7f7d4054e9b9 RSP: 002b:00007f7d404fa2f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7d405d87a0 RCX: 00007f7d4054e9b9 RDX: 0000000000000090 RSI: 0000000020000000 RDI: 0000000000000006 RBP: 00007f7d405a51d0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 61635f65646f6e69 R13: 65646f7475616f6e R14: 7261637369646f6e R15: 00007f7d405d87a8 </TASK> INFO: task syz-executor361:5697 blocked for more than 145 seconds. Not tainted 6.2.0-rc3-syzkaller-00376-g7c6984405241 #0 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:syz-executor361 state:D stack:21216 pid:5697 ppid:5119 flags:0x00004004 Call Trace: <TASK> context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5293 [inline] __schedule+0x995/0xe20 kernel/sched/core.c:6606 schedule+0xcb/0x190 kernel/sched/core.c:6682 rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x5f9/0x930 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1095 __down_read_common+0x54/0x2a0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1260 btrfs_page_mkwrite+0x417/0xc80 fs/btrfs/inode.c:8526 do_page_mkwrite+0x19e/0x5e0 mm/memory.c:2947 wp_page_shared+0x15e/0x380 mm/memory.c:3295 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:4949 [inline] __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5073 [inline] handle_mm_fault+0x1b79/0x26b0 mm/memory.c:5219 do_user_addr_fault+0x69b/0xcb0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1428 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1519 [inline] exc_page_fault+0x7a/0x110 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1575 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:570 RIP: 0010:copy_user_short_string+0xd/0x40 arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S:233 Code: 74 0a 89 (...) RSP: 0018:ffffc9000570f330 EFLAGS: 000502 ---truncated---

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52737
Debian:13linux6.1.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52737
Debian:14linux6.1.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-186.196USN-8575-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-186.196UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1112.119UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1112.119USN-8575-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1117.126USN-8575-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1117.126UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1117.126UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1117.126USN-8610-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1112.122USN-8575-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1112.122UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1108.114UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1108.114USN-8575-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1095.103USN-8575-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1095.103UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1106.110UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1106.110USN-8575-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1107.113USN-8620-4
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1107.113UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1104.109USN-8575-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1104.109UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-184.194UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-184.194USN-8575-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1107.108USN-8575-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1107.108UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1064.66UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1064.66USN-8576-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1053.53USN-8576-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1053.53UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1109.115UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1109.115USN-8575-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1106.109USN-8668-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1106.109UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1075.79UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52737
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1075.79USN-8575-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 885f46d87f29a94eafe3cc707d5c4dea2be248f3 – before e425191073a80906d8502b5179471cc58b0b9e9a885f46d87f29a94eafe3cc707d5c4dea2be248f3 – before d8c594da79bc0244e610a70594e824a401802be1885f46d87f29a94eafe3cc707d5c4dea2be248f3 – before 519b7e13b5ae8dd38da1e52275705343be6bb508
Linux Linux 5.13

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