CVE-2023-53339

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

btrfs: fix BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance

Pausing and canceling balance can race to interrupt balance lead to BUG_ON
panic in btrfs_cancel_balance. The BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance
does not take this race scenario into account.

However, the race condition has no other side effects. We can fix that.

Reproducing it with panic trace like this:

  kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4618!
  RIP: 0010:btrfs_cancel_balance+0x5cf/0x6a0
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   ? do_nanosleep+0x60/0x120
   ? hrtimer_nanosleep+0xb7/0x1a0
   ? sched_core_clone_cookie+0x70/0x70
   btrfs_ioctl_balance_ctl+0x55/0x70
   btrfs_ioctl+0xa46/0xd20
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7d/0xa0
   do_syscall_64+0x38/0x80
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

  Race scenario as follows:
  > mutex_unlock(&fs_info->balance_mutex);
  > --------------------
  > .......issue pause and cancel req in another thread
  > --------------------
  > ret = __btrfs_balance(fs_info);
  >
  > mutex_lock(&fs_info->balance_mutex);
  > if (ret == -ECANCELED && atomic_read(&fs_info->balance_pause_req)) {
  >         btrfs_info(fs_info, "balance: paused");
  >         btrfs_exclop_balance(fs_info, BTRFS_EXCLOP_BALANCE_PAUSED);
  > }
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
LinuxCNA
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 5%
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
𝑥
< 4.19.293
linuxlinux_kernel
4.20 ≤
𝑥
< 5.4.255
linuxlinux_kernel
5.5 ≤
𝑥
< 5.10.192
linuxlinux_kernel
5.11 ≤
𝑥
< 5.15.128
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16 ≤
𝑥
< 6.1.47
linuxlinux_kernel
6.2 ≤
𝑥
< 6.4.12
linuxlinux_kernel
6.5:rc1
linuxlinux_kernel
6.5:rc2
linuxlinux_kernel
6.5:rc3
linuxlinux_kernel
6.5:rc4
linuxlinux_kernel
6.5:rc5
linuxlinux_kernel
6.5:rc6
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
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Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
linux
bullseye
5.10.223-1
fixed
bullseye (security)
5.10.237-1
fixed
bookworm
6.1.148-1
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.147-1
fixed
trixie
6.12.43-1
fixed
trixie (security)
6.12.41-1
fixed
forky
6.16.7-1
fixed
sid
6.16.7-1
fixed