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This means that a\nconcurrent task that is aborting the transaction may free the transaction\nbefore we read its 'aborted' field, leading to a use-after-free.\n\nFix this by reading the 'aborted' field while holding fs_info->trans_lock\nsince any freeing task must first acquire that lock and set\nfs_info->running_transaction to NULL before freeing the transaction.\n\nThis was reported by syzbot and Dmitry with the following stack traces\nfrom KASAN:\n\n ==================================================================\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in join_transaction+0xd9b/0xda0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:278\n Read of size 4 at addr ffff888011839024 by task kworker/u4:9/1128\n\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1128 Comm: kworker/u4:9 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7-syzkaller-00019-gc45323b7560e #0\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\n Workqueue: events_unbound btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space\n Call Trace:\n \n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]\n print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489\n kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602\n join_transaction+0xd9b/0xda0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:278\n start_transaction+0xaf8/0x1670 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:697\n flush_space+0x448/0xcf0 fs/btrfs/space-info.c:803\n btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space+0x159/0x510 fs/btrfs/space-info.c:1321\n process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]\n process_scheduled_works+0xa66/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3317\n worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3398\n kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389\n ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244\n \n\n Allocated by task 5315:\n kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]\n kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68\n poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x98/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394\n kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x243/0x390 mm/slub.c:4329\n kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:901 [inline]\n join_transaction+0x144/0xda0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:308\n start_transaction+0xaf8/0x1670 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:697\n btrfs_create_common+0x1b2/0x2e0 fs/btrfs/inode.c:6572\n lookup_open fs/namei.c:3649 [inline]\n open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3748 [inline]\n path_openat+0x1c03/0x3590 fs/namei.c:3984\n do_filp_open+0x27f/0x4e0 fs/namei.c:4014\n do_sys_openat2+0x13e/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1402\n do_sys_open fs/open.c:1417 [inline]\n __do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1495 [inline]\n __se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1489 [inline]\n __x64_sys_creat+0x123/0x170 fs/open.c:1489\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\n Freed by task 5336:\n kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]\n kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68\n kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:582\n poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]\n __kasan_slab_free+0x59/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264\n kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]\n slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2353 [inline]\n slab_free mm/slub.c:4613 [inline]\n kfree+0x196/0x430 mm/slub.c:4761\n cleanup_transaction fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2063 [inline]\n btrfs_commit_transaction+0x2c97/0x3720 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2598\n insert_balance_item+0x1284/0x20b0 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:3757\n btrfs_balance+0x992/\n---truncated---", "affected": [ { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "versions": [ { "version": "871383be592ba7e819d27556591e315a0df38cee", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "cee55b1219568c80bf0d5dc55066e4a859baf753" }, { "version": "871383be592ba7e819d27556591e315a0df38cee", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "c7a53757717e68af94a56929d57f1e6daff220ec" }, { 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