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CVE-2023-54158— btrfs: don't free qgroup space unless specified

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Linux Linux
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Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞,该漏洞源于释放未指定的配额空间,可能导致空间泄露。

AI Predicted 5.3 Difficulty: Theoretical EPSS 0.24% · P15

Affected Version Matrix 16

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07a< 1e05bf5e80bb1161b7294c9ce5292b26232ab853 affected
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07a< 148b16cd30b202999ec5b534e3e5d8ab4b766f21 affected
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07a< f264be24146bee2d652010a18ae2517df5856261 affected
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07a< 15e877e5923ec6d6caa5e447dcc4b79a8ff7cc53 affected
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07a< 04ff6bd0317735791ef3e443c7c89f3c0dda548d affected
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07a< 478bd15f46b6e3aae78aac4f3788697f1546eea6 affected
ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07a< d246331b78cbef86237f9c22389205bc9b4e1cc1 affected
4.17 affected
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Vulnerability Title
btrfs: don't free qgroup space unless specified
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
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.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
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Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
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Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞,该漏洞源于释放未指定的配额空间,可能导致空间泄露。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

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Linux Linux ff6bc37eb7f6e7b052e50c13a480e1080b3ec07a ~ 1e05bf5e80bb1161b7294c9ce5292b26232ab853 -
Linux Linux 4.17 -

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Other References for CVE-2023-54158 (2)

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