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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jun 20, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 19, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

btrfs: fix deadlock between quota disable and qgroup rescan worker

Quota disable ioctl starts a transaction before waiting for the qgroup
rescan worker completes. However, this wait can be infinite and results
in deadlock because of circular dependency among the quota disable
ioctl, the qgroup rescan worker and the other task with transaction such
as block group relocation task.

The deadlock happens with the steps following:

  1. Task A calls ioctl to disable quota. It starts a transaction and
    waits for qgroup rescan worker completes.
  2. Task B such as block group relocation task starts a transaction and
    joins to the transaction that task A started. Then task B commits to
    the transaction. In this commit, task B waits for a commit by task A.
  3. Task C as the qgroup rescan worker starts its job and starts a
    transaction. In this transaction start, task C waits for completion
    of the transaction that task A started and task B committed.

This deadlock was found with fstests test case btrfs/115 and a zoned
null_blk device. The test case enables and disables quota, and the
block group reclaim was triggered during the quota disable by chance.
The deadlock was also observed by running quota enable and disable in
parallel with 'btrfs balance' command on regular null_blk devices.

An example report of the deadlock:

[372.469894] INFO: task kworker/u16:6:103 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
[372.479944] Not tainted 5.16.0-rc8 #7
[372.485067] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[372.493898] task:kworker/u16:6 state:D stack: 0 pid: 103 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000
[372.503285] Workqueue: btrfs-qgroup-rescan btrfs_work_helper [btrfs]
[372.510782] Call Trace:
[372.514092]
[372.521684] __schedule+0xb56/0x4850
[372.530104] ? io_schedule_timeout+0x190/0x190
[372.538842] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x7e/0x100
[372.547092] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3e/0x60
[372.555591] schedule+0xe0/0x270
[372.561894] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x18bb/0x2610 [btrfs]
[372.570506] ? btrfs_apply_pending_changes+0x50/0x50 [btrfs]
[372.578875] ? free_unref_page+0x3f2/0x650
[372.585484] ? finish_wait+0x270/0x270
[372.591594] ? release_extent_buffer+0x224/0x420 [btrfs]
[372.599264] btrfs_qgroup_rescan_worker+0xc13/0x10c0 [btrfs]
[372.607157] ? lock_release+0x3a9/0x6d0
[372.613054] ? btrfs_qgroup_account_extent+0xda0/0xda0 [btrfs]
[372.620960] ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x11e/0x250
[372.627137] ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
[372.633215] ? lock_is_held_type+0xe4/0x140
[372.639404] btrfs_work_helper+0x1ae/0xa90 [btrfs]
[372.646268] process_one_work+0x7e9/0x1320
[372.652321] ? lock_release+0x6d0/0x6d0
[372.658081] ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x230/0x230
[372.664513] ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
[372.670529] worker_thread+0x59e/0xf90
[372.676172] ? process_one_work+0x1320/0x1320
[372.682440] kthread+0x3b9/0x490
[372.687550] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x50
[372.693811] ? set_kthread_struct+0x100/0x100
[372.700052] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[372.705517]
[372.709747] INFO: task btrfs-transacti:2347 blocked for more than 123 seconds.
[372.729827] Not tainted 5.16.0-rc8 #7
[372.745907] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[372.767106] task:btrfs-transacti state:D stack: 0 pid: 2347 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000
[372.787776] Call Trace:
[372.801652]
[372.812961] __schedule+0xb56/0x4850
[372.830011] ? io_schedule_timeout+0x190/0x190
[372.852547] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x7e/0x100
[372.871761] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3e/0x60
[372.886792] schedule+0xe0/0x270
[372.901685] wait_current_trans+0x22c/0x310 [btrfs]
[372.919743] ? btrfs_put_transaction+0x3d0/0x3d0 [btrfs]
[372.938923] ? finish_wait+0x270/0x270
[372.959085] ? join_transaction+0xc7
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 20, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 20, 2024
Last updated Aug 19, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-48734

GHSA ID

GHSA-wrfr-rmr8-j7gx

Source code

No known source code

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