5.5 - CVE-2024-44972

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

btrfs: do not clear page dirty inside extent_write_locked_range()

[BUG] For subpage + zoned case, the following workload can lead to rsv data leak at unmount time:

# mkfs.btrfs -f -s 4k $dev
# mount $dev $mnt
# fsstress -w -n 8 -d $mnt -s 1709539240
0/0: fiemap - no filename
0/1: copyrange read - no filename
0/2: write - no filename
0/3: rename - no source filename
0/4: creat f0 x:0 0 0
0/4: creat add id=0,parent=-1
0/5: writev f0[259 1 0 0 0 0] [778052,113,965] 0
0/6: ioctl(FIEMAP) f0[259 1 0 0 224 887097] [1294220,2291618343991484791,0x10000] -1
0/7: dwrite - xfsctl(XFS_IOC_DIOINFO) f0[259 1 0 0 224 887097] return 25, fallback to stat()
0/7: dwrite f0[259 1 0 0 224 887097] [696320,102400] 0
# umount $mnt

The dmesg includes the following rsv leak detection warning (all call trace skipped):

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WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:8653 btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1e0/0x200 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:8654 btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1a8/0x200 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:8660 btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1a0/0x200 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
BTRFS info (device sda): last unmount of filesystem 1b4abba9-de34-4f07-9e7f-157cf12a18d6
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WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/block-group.c:4434 btrfs_free_block_groups+0x338/0x500 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
BTRFS info (device sda): space_info DATA has 268218368 free, is not full
BTRFS info (device sda): space_info total=268435456, used=204800, pinned=0, reserved=0, may_use=12288, readonly=0 zone_unusable=0
BTRFS info (device sda): global_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): trans_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): chunk_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): delayed_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): delayed_refs_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
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WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 4528 at fs/btrfs/block-group.c:4434 btrfs_free_block_groups+0x338/0x500 [btrfs]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
BTRFS info (device sda): space_info METADATA has 267796480 free, is not full
BTRFS info (device sda): space_info total=268435456, used=131072, pinned=0, reserved=0, may_use=262144, readonly=0 zone_unusable=245760
BTRFS info (device sda): global_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): trans_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): chunk_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): delayed_block_rsv: size 0 reserved 0
BTRFS info (device sda): delayed_refs_rsv: size 0 reserved 0

Above $dev is a tcmu-runner emulated zoned HDD, which has a max zone append size of 64K, and the system has 64K page size.

[CAUSE] I have added several trace_printk() to show the events (header skipped):

> btrfs_dirty_pages: r/i=5/259 dirty start=774144 len=114688
> btrfs_dirty_pages: r/i=5/259 dirty part of page=720896 off_in_page=53248 len_in_page=12288
> btrfs_dirty_pages: r/i=5/259 dirty part of page=786432 off_in_page=0 len_in_page=65536
> btrfs_dirty_pages: r/i=5/259 dirty part of page=851968 off_in_page=0 len_in_page=36864

The above lines show our buffered write has dirtied 3 pages of inode 259 of root 5:

704K 768K 832K 896K
I |////I/////////////////I///////////| I
756K 868K

|///| is the dirtied range using subpage bitmaps. and 'I' is the page
boundary.

Meanwhile all three pages (704K, 768K, 832K) have their PageDirty
flag set.

> btrfs_direct_write: r/i=5/259 start dio filepos=696320 len=102400

Then direct IO writ ---truncated---