CVE-2024-49867
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2024
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
btrfs: wait for fixup workers before stopping cleaner kthread during umount
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: wait for fixup workers before stopping cleaner kthread during umount During unmount, at close_ctree(), we have the following steps in this order: 1) Park the cleaner kthread - this doesn't destroy the kthread, it basically halts its execution (wake ups against it work but do nothing); 2) We stop the cleaner kthread - this results in freeing the respective struct task_struct; 3) We call btrfs_stop_all_workers() which waits for any jobs running in all the work queues and then free the work queues. Syzbot reported a case where a fixup worker resulted in a crash when doing a delayed iput on its inode while attempting to wake up the cleaner at btrfs_add_delayed_iput(), because the task_struct of the cleaner kthread was already freed. This can happen during unmount because we don't wait for any fixup workers still running before we call kthread_stop() against the cleaner kthread, which stops and free all its resources. Fix this by waiting for any fixup workers at close_ctree() before we call kthread_stop() against the cleaner and run pending delayed iputs. The stack traces reported by syzbot were the following: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x77/0x2050 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5065 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880272a8a18 by task kworker/u8:3/52 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 52 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 Workqueue: btrfs-fixup btrfs_work_helper Call Trace: <TASK> __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:377 [inline] print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488 kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601 __lock_acquire+0x77/0x2050 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5065 lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825 __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+0xb0/0x1480 kernel/sched/core.c:4154 btrfs_writepage_fixup_worker+0xc16/0xdf0 fs/btrfs/inode.c:2842 btrfs_work_helper+0x390/0xc50 fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:314 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xa63/0x1850 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 </TASK> 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:247 [inline] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4086 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4135 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x16b/0x320 mm/slub.c:4187 alloc_task_struct_node kernel/fork.c:180 [inline] dup_task_struct+0x57/0x8c0 kernel/fork.c:1107 copy_process+0x5d1/0x3d50 kernel/fork.c:2206 kernel_clone+0x223/0x880 kernel/fork.c:2787 kernel_thread+0x1bc/0x240 kernel/fork.c:2849 create_kthread kernel/kthread.c:412 [inline] kthreadd+0x60d/0x810 kernel/kthread.c:765 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 61: 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:579 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:230 [inline] slab_free_h ---truncated---
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7a97311de48d56af6db4c5819f95faf9b0b23b1a | affected | git | a71349b692ab34ea197949e13e3cc42570fe73d9 | Unavailable | None listed |
| f4b1363cae43fef7c86c993b7ca7fe7d546b3c68 | affected | git | 70b60c8d9b42763d6629e44f448aa5d8ae477d61 | Unavailable | None listed |
| f4b1363cae43fef7c86c993b7ca7fe7d546b3c68 | affected | git | 4c98fe0dfa2ae83c4631699695506d8941db4bfe | Unavailable | None listed |
| f4b1363cae43fef7c86c993b7ca7fe7d546b3c68 | affected | git | 9da40aea63f8769f28afb91aea0fac4cf6fbbb65 | Unavailable | None listed |
| f4b1363cae43fef7c86c993b7ca7fe7d546b3c68 | affected | git | ed87190e9d9c80aad220fb6b0b03a84d22e2c95b | Unavailable | None listed |
| f4b1363cae43fef7c86c993b7ca7fe7d546b3c68 | affected | git | bf0de0f9a0544c11f96f93206da04ab87dcea1f4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| f4b1363cae43fef7c86c993b7ca7fe7d546b3c68 | affected | git | 65d11eb276836d49003a8060cf31fa2284ad1047 | Unavailable | None listed |
| f4b1363cae43fef7c86c993b7ca7fe7d546b3c68 | affected | git | 41fd1e94066a815a7ab0a7025359e9b40e4b3576 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6026fd9da213daab95469356fe7fdcf29ae1a296 | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.4.22 | affected | semver | 5.4.285 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.5.6 | affected | semver | 5.6 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.6 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.6 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.4.285 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.227 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.168 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.113 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.55 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.10.14 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.10.* | None listed |
| 6.11.3 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.11.* | None listed |
| 6.12 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |