Vulnerability CVE-2024-26905

Vulnerability CVE-2024-26905

Published: 2024-04-17

Description:

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

btrfs: fix data races when accessing the reserved amount of block reserves

At space_info.c we have several places where we access the ->reserved
field of a block reserve without taking the block reserve's spinlock
first, which makes KCSAN warn about a data race since that field is
always updated while holding the spinlock.

The reports from KCSAN are like the following:

[117.193526] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in btrfs_block_rsv_release [btrfs] / need_preemptive_reclaim [btrfs]

[117.195148] read to 0x000000017f587190 of 8 bytes by task 6303 on cpu 3:
[117.195172] need_preemptive_reclaim+0x222/0x2f0 [btrfs]
[117.195992] __reserve_bytes+0xbb0/0xdc8 [btrfs]
[117.196807] btrfs_reserve_metadata_bytes+0x4c/0x120 [btrfs]
[117.197620] btrfs_block_rsv_add+0x78/0xa8 [btrfs]
[117.198434] btrfs_delayed_update_inode+0x154/0x368 [btrfs]
[117.199300] btrfs_update_inode+0x108/0x1c8 [btrfs]
[117.200122] btrfs_dirty_inode+0xb4/0x140 [btrfs]
[117.200937] btrfs_update_time+0x8c/0xb0 [btrfs]
[117.201754] touch_atime+0x16c/0x1e0
[117.201789] filemap_read+0x674/0x728
[117.201823] btrfs_file_read_iter+0xf8/0x410 [btrfs]
[117.202653] vfs_read+0x2b6/0x498
[117.203454] ksys_read+0xa2/0x150
[117.203473] __s390x_sys_read+0x68/0x88
[117.203495] do_syscall+0x1c6/0x210
[117.203517] __do_syscall+0xc8/0xf0
[117.203539] system_call+0x70/0x98

[117.203579] write to 0x000000017f587190 of 8 bytes by task 11 on cpu 0:
[117.203604] btrfs_block_rsv_release+0x2e8/0x578 [btrfs]
[117.204432] btrfs_delayed_inode_release_metadata+0x7c/0x1d0 [btrfs]
[117.205259] __btrfs_update_delayed_inode+0x37c/0x5e0 [btrfs]
[117.206093] btrfs_async_run_delayed_root+0x356/0x498 [btrfs]
[117.206917] btrfs_work_helper+0x160/0x7a0 [btrfs]
[117.207738] process_one_work+0x3b6/0x838
[117.207768] worker_thread+0x75e/0xb10
[117.207797] kthread+0x21a/0x230
[117.207830] __ret_from_fork+0x6c/0xb8
[117.207861] ret_from_fork+0xa/0x30

So add a helper to get the reserved amount of a block reserve while
holding the lock. The value may be not be up to date anymore when used by
need_preemptive_reclaim() and btrfs_preempt_reclaim_metadata_space(), but
that's ok since the worst it can do is cause more reclaim work do be done
sooner rather than later. Reading the field while holding the lock instead
of using the data_race() annotation is used in order to prevent load
tearing.

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/995e91c9556c8fc6028b474145a36e947d1eb6b6

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82220b1835baaebf4ae2e490f56353a341a09bd2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c44542093525699a30c307dae1ea5a1b03b3302f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e06cc89475eddc1f3a7a4d471524256152c68166

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