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CVE-2024-35784

medium

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix deadlock with fiemap and extent locking While working on the patchset to remov…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix deadlock with fiemap and extent locking While working on the patchset to remove extent locking I got a lockdep splat with fiemap and pagefaulting with my new extent lock replacement lock. This deadlock exists with our normal code, we just don't have lockdep annotations with the extent locking so we've never noticed it. Since we're copying the fiemap extent to user space on every iteration we have the chance of pagefaulting. Because we hold the extent lock for the entire range we could mkwrite into a range in the file that we have mmap'ed. This would deadlock with the following stack trace [] lock_extent+0x28d/0x2f0 [] btrfs_page_mkwrite+0x273/0x8a0 [] do_page_mkwrite+0x50/0xb0 [] do_fault+0xc1/0x7b0 [] __handle_mm_fault+0x2fa/0x460 [] handle_mm_fault+0xa4/0x330 [] do_user_addr_fault+0x1f4/0x800 [] exc_page_fault+0x7c/0x1e0 [] asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 [] rep_movs_alternative+0x33/0x70 [] _copy_to_user+0x49/0x70 [] fiemap_fill_next_extent+0xc8/0x120 [] emit_fiemap_extent+0x4d/0xa0 [] extent_fiemap+0x7f8/0xad0 [] btrfs_fiemap+0x49/0x80 [] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x3e1/0xb50 [] do_syscall_64+0x94/0x1a0 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 I wrote an fstest to reproduce this deadlock without my replacement lock and verified that the deadlock exists with our existing locking. To fix this simply don't take the extent lock for the entire duration of the fiemap. This is safe in general because we keep track of where we are when we're searching the tree, so if an ordered extent updates in the middle of our fiemap call we'll still emit the correct extents because we know what offset we were on before. The only place we maintain the lock is searching delalloc. Since the delalloc stuff can change during writeback we want to lock the extent range so we have a consistent view of delalloc at the time we're checking to see if we need to set the delalloc flag. With this patch applied we no longer deadlock with my testcase.

CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2024-05-17 13:15
Modified: 2026-10-30 13:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 3 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-30 13:38 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel <6.6.24, ≥6.7 <6.7.12, 6.8

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89bca7fe6382d61e88c67a0b0e7bce315986fb8b
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0ad381fa7690244802aed119b478b4bdafc31dd
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ded566b4637f1b6b4c9ba74e7d0b8493e93f19cf
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89bca7fe6382d61e88c67a0b0e7bce315986fb8b
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0ad381fa7690244802aed119b478b4bdafc31dd
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ded566b4637f1b6b4c9ba74e7d0b8493e93f19cf

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-30 13:38 UTC · record ↗

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