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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Jan 15, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 15, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

btrfs: flush delalloc workers queue before stopping cleaner kthread during unmount

During the unmount path, at close_ctree(), we first stop the cleaner
kthread, using kthread_stop() which frees the associated task_struct, and
then stop and destroy all the work queues. However after we stopped the
cleaner we may still have a worker from the delalloc_workers queue running
inode.c:submit_compressed_extents(), which calls btrfs_add_delayed_iput(),
which in turn tries to wake up the cleaner kthread - which was already
destroyed before, resulting in a use-after-free on the task_struct.

Syzbot reported this with the following stack traces:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x78/0x2100 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5089
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880259d2818 by task kworker/u8:3/52

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 52 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-syzkaller-00002-gcdd30ebb1b9f #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Workqueue: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_work_helper
Call Trace:

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489
kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602
__lock_acquire+0x78/0x2100 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5089
lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849
__raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xd5/0x120 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
class_raw_spinlock_irqsave_constructor include/linux/spinlock.h:551 [inline]
try_to_wake_up+0xc2/0x1470 kernel/sched/core.c:4205
submit_compressed_extents+0xdf/0x16e0 fs/btrfs/inode.c:1615
run_ordered_work fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:288 [inline]
btrfs_work_helper+0x96f/0xc40 fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:324
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa66/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

Allocated by task 2:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:319 [inline]
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x66/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:345
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4104 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4153 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x1d9/0x380 mm/slub.c:4205
alloc_task_struct_node kernel/fork.c:180 [inline]
dup_task_struct+0x57/0x8c0 kernel/fork.c:1113
copy_process+0x5d1/0x3d50 kernel/fork.c:2225
kernel_clone+0x223/0x870 kernel/fork.c:2807
kernel_thread+0x1bc/0x240 kernel/fork.c:2869
create_kthread kernel/kthread.c:412 [inline]
kthreadd+0x60d/0x810 kernel/kthread.c:767
ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

Freed by task 24:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:582
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x59/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2338 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:4598 [inline]
kmem_cache_free+0x195/0x410 mm/slub.c:4700
put_task_struct include/linux/sched/task.h:144 [inline]
delayed_put_task_struct+0x125/0x300 kernel/exit.c:227
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2567 [inline]
rcu_core+0xaaa/0x17a0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2823
handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:554
run_ksoftirqd+0xca/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:943

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References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 15, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 15, 2025
Last updated Jan 15, 2025

Severity

Unknown

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2024-57896

GHSA ID

GHSA-w28c-hqg3-44gm

Source code

No known source code

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