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CVE-2023-54158

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Identifier year (not publication year)
2023
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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btrfs: don't free qgroup space unless specified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: don't free qgroup space unless specified Boris noticed in his simple quotas testing that he was getting a leak with Sweet Tea's change to subvol create that stopped doing a transaction commit. This was just a side effect of that change. In the delayed inode code we have an optimization that will free extra reservations if we think we can pack a dir item into an already modified leaf. Previously this wouldn't be triggered in the subvolume create case because we'd commit the transaction, it was still possible but much harder to trigger. It could actually be triggered if we did a mkdir && subvol create with qgroups enabled. This occurs because in btrfs_insert_delayed_dir_index(), which gets called when we're adding the dir item, we do the following: btrfs_block_rsv_release(fs_info, trans->block_rsv, bytes, NULL); if we're able to skip reserving space. The problem here is that trans->block_rsv points at the temporary block rsv for the subvolume create, which has qgroup reservations in the block rsv. This is a problem because btrfs_block_rsv_release() will do the following: if (block_rsv->qgroup_rsv_reserved >= block_rsv->qgroup_rsv_size) { qgroup_to_release = block_rsv->qgroup_rsv_reserved - block_rsv->qgroup_rsv_size; block_rsv->qgroup_rsv_reserved = block_rsv->qgroup_rsv_size; } The temporary block rsv just has ->qgroup_rsv_reserved set, ->qgroup_rsv_size == 0. The optimization in btrfs_insert_delayed_dir_index() sets ->qgroup_rsv_reserved = 0. Then later on when we call btrfs_subvolume_release_metadata() which has btrfs_block_rsv_release(fs_info, rsv, (u64)-1, &qgroup_to_release); btrfs_qgroup_convert_reserved_meta(root, qgroup_to_release); qgroup_to_release is set to 0, and we do not convert the reserved metadata space. The problem here is that the block rsv code has been unconditionally messing with ->qgroup_rsv_reserved, because the main place this is used is delalloc, and any time we call btrfs_block_rsv_release() we do it with qgroup_to_release set, and thus do the proper accounting. The subvolume code is the only other code that uses the qgroup reservation stuff, but it's intermingled with the above optimization, and thus was getting its reservation freed out from underneath it and thus leaking the reserved space. The solution is to simply not mess with the qgroup reservations if we don't have qgroup_to_release set. This works with the existing code as anything that messes with the delalloc reservations always have qgroup_to_release set. This fixes the leak that Boris was observing.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

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Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07aaffectedgit1e05bf5e80bb1161b7294c9ce5292b26232ab853UnavailableNone listed
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07aaffectedgit148b16cd30b202999ec5b534e3e5d8ab4b766f21UnavailableNone listed
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07aaffectedgitf264be24146bee2d652010a18ae2517df5856261UnavailableNone listed
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07aaffectedgit15e877e5923ec6d6caa5e447dcc4b79a8ff7cc53UnavailableNone listed
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07aaffectedgit04ff6bd0317735791ef3e443c7c89f3c0dda548dUnavailableNone listed
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07aaffectedgit478bd15f46b6e3aae78aac4f3788697f1546eea6UnavailableNone listed
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07aaffectedgitd246331b78cbef86237f9c22389205bc9b4e1cc1UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4.17affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver4.17UnavailableNone listed
5.4.243unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.180unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.112unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.29unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.2.16unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.2.*None listed
6.3.3unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.3.*None listed
6.4unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed