Vulnerability · Published Mar 26, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-26644btrfs: don't abort filesystem when attempting to snapshot deleted subvolume

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 14% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 86.0% 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: don't abort filesystem when attempting to snapshot deleted subvolume If the source file descriptor to the snapshot ioctl refers to a deleted subvolume, we get the following abort: BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -2) WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 833 at fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1875 create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs] Modules linked in: pata_acpi btrfs ata_piix libata scsi_mod virtio_net blake2b_generic xor net_failover virtio_rng failover scsi_common rng_core raid6_pq libcrc32c CPU: 0 PID: 833 Comm: t_snapshot_dele Not tainted 6.7.0-rc6 #2 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-1.fc39 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs] RSP: 0018:ffffa09c01337af8 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9982053e7c78 RCX: 0000000000000027 RDX: ffff99827dc20848 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff99827dc20840 RBP: ffffa09c01337c00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffa09c01337998 R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffffb96da248 R12: fffffffffffffffe R13: ffff99820535bb28 R14: ffff99820b7bd000 R15: ffff99820381ea80 FS: 00007fe20aadabc0(0000) GS:ffff99827dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000559a120b502f CR3: 00000000055b6000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs] ? __warn+0x81/0x130 ? create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs] ? report_bug+0x171/0x1a0 ? handle_bug+0x3a/0x70 ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 ? create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs] ? create_pending_snapshot+0x1040/0x1190 [btrfs] create_pending_snapshots+0x92/0xc0 [btrfs] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x66b/0xf40 [btrfs] btrfs_mksubvol+0x301/0x4d0 [btrfs] btrfs_mksnapshot+0x80/0xb0 [btrfs] __btrfs_ioctl_snap_create+0x1c2/0x1d0 [btrfs] btrfs_ioctl_snap_create_v2+0xc4/0x150 [btrfs] btrfs_ioctl+0x8a6/0x2650 [btrfs] ? kmem_cache_free+0x22/0x340 ? do_sys_openat2+0x97/0xe0 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x46/0xf0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 RIP: 0033:0x7fe20abe83af RSP: 002b:00007ffe6eff1360 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 00007fe20abe83af RDX: 00007ffe6eff23c0 RSI: 0000000050009417 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fe20ad16cd0 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007ffe6eff13c0 R14: 00007fe20ad45000 R15: 0000559a120b6d58 </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- BTRFS: error (device vdc: state A) in create_pending_snapshot:1875: errno=-2 No such entry BTRFS info (device vdc: state EA): forced readonly BTRFS warning (device vdc: state EA): Skipping commit of aborted transaction. BTRFS: error (device vdc: state EA) in cleanup_transaction:2055: errno=-2 No such entry This happens because create_pending_snapshot() initializes the new root item as a copy of the source root item. This includes the refs field, which is 0 for a deleted subvolume. The call to btrfs_insert_root() therefore inserts a root with refs == 0. btrfs_get_new_fs_root() then finds the root and returns -ENOENT if refs == 0, which causes create_pending_snapshot() to abort. Fix it by checking the source root's refs before attempting the snapshot, but after locking subvol_sem to avoid racing with deletion.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.76-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26644
Debian:13linux6.6.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26644
Debian:14linux6.6.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-106.116UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1061.67UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1063.72UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.56.5.0-1022.23~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1063.72.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1059.67UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.56.5.0-1022.24~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1058.63UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1044.51UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41~22.04.2UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1054.57UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1057.63UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1058.63UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-106.116UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1054.55UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.56.5.0-1021.22UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1026.26UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1015.15UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.56.5.0-1024.25UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1059.65UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.56.5.0-1024.24~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1054.57UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.56.5.0-40.40.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.56.5.0-1015.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1030.34UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26644

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux d68fc57b7e3245cfacf2e3b47acfed1946a11786 – before c06941564027bdbc01d2df7f41e333c11cb0482dd68fc57b7e3245cfacf2e3b47acfed1946a11786 – before 2bdf872bcfe629a6202ffd6641615a8ed00e8464d68fc57b7e3245cfacf2e3b47acfed1946a11786 – before 0877497dc97834728e1b528ddf1e1c484292c29cd68fc57b7e3245cfacf2e3b47acfed1946a11786 – before 6e6bca99e8d88d989a7cde4c064abea552d5219bd68fc57b7e3245cfacf2e3b47acfed1946a11786 – before ec794a7528199e1be6d47bec03f4755aa75df256d68fc57b7e3245cfacf2e3b47acfed1946a11786 – before d8680b722f0ff6d7a01ddacc1844e0d52354d6ffd68fc57b7e3245cfacf2e3b47acfed1946a11786 – before 7081929ab2572920e94d70be3d332e5c9f97095a
Linux Linux 2.6.35

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