CVE-2021-47599

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.15.11 - Race Condition in btrfs_show_devname

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: use latest_dev in btrfs_show_devname The test case btrfs/238 reports the warning below: WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 481 at fs/btrfs/super.c:2509 btrfs_show_devname+0x104/0x1e8 [btrfs] CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G W O 5.14.0-rc1-custom #72 Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 Call trace: btrfs_show_devname+0x108/0x1b4 [btrfs] show_mountinfo+0x234/0x2c4 m_show+0x28/0x34 seq_read_iter+0x12c/0x3c4 vfs_read+0x29c/0x2c8 ksys_read+0x80/0xec __arm64_sys_read+0x28/0x34 invoke_syscall+0x50/0xf8 do_el0_svc+0x88/0x138 el0_svc+0x2c/0x8c el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xe4 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c Reason: While btrfs_prepare_sprout() moves the fs_devices::devices into fs_devices::seed_list, the btrfs_show_devname() searches for the devices and found none, leading to the warning as in above. Fix: latest_dev is updated according to the changes to the device list. That means we could use the latest_dev->name to show the device name in /proc/self/mounts, the pointer will be always valid as it's assigned before the device is deleted from the list in remove or replace. The RCU protection is sufficient as the device structure is freed after synchronization.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (15)
Linux/Linux < 5.9
Linux/Linux 1c986b7e8c1bf8fabbc294036b003286cc3a8c7e
Linux/Linux 3d3452920cacc3a46444ecca26af5d181410ff19
Linux/Linux 4.19.141 - 4.20
Linux/Linux 4faf55b03823e96c44dc4e364520000ed3b12fdb - 6605fd2f394bba0a0059df2b6cfc87b0b6d393a2
Linux/Linux 4faf55b03823e96c44dc4e364520000ed3b12fdb - e342c2558016ead462f376b6c6c2ac5efc17f3b1
Linux/Linux 5.15.11 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 5.4.60 - 5.5
Linux/Linux 5.7.17 - 5.8
... and 5 more
Published Jun 19, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026