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🛡️ CVE-2024-49867 — kernel

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

btrfs: wait for fixup workers before stopping cleaner kthread during umount

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

btrfs: wait for fixup workers before stopping cleaner kthread during umount

During unmount, at close_ctree(), we have the following steps in this order:

1) Park the cleaner kthread - this doesn't destroy the kthread, it basically

halts its execution (wake ups against it work but do nothing);

2) We stop the cleaner kthread - this results in freeing the respective

struct task_struct;

3) We call btrfs_stop_all_workers() which waits for any jobs running in all

the work queues and then free the work queues.

Syzbot reported a case where a fixup worker resulted in a crash when doing

a delayed iput on its inode while attempting to wake up the cleaner at

btrfs_add_delayed_iput(), because the task_struct of the cleaner kthread

was already freed. This can happen during unmount because we don't wait

for any fixup workers still running before we call kthread_stop() against

the cleaner kthread, which stops and free all its resources.

Fix this by waiting for any fixup workers at close_ctree() before we call

kthread_stop() against the cleaner and run pending delayed iputs.

The stack traces reported by syzbot were the following:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x77/0x2050 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5065

Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880272a8a18 by task kworker/u8:3/52

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 52 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-syzkaller #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024

Workqueue: btrfs-fixup btrfs_work_helper

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]

dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120

print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]

print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488

kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601

__lock_acquire+0x77/0x2050 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5065

lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825

__raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]

_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xd5/0x120 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162

class_raw_spinlock_irqsave_constructor include/linux/spinlock.h:551 [inline]

try_to_wake_up+0xb0/0x1480 kernel/sched/core.c:4154

btrfs_writepage_fixup_worker+0xc16/0xdf0 fs/btrfs/inode.c:2842

btrfs_work_helper+0x390/0xc50 fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:314

process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]

process_scheduled_works+0xa63/0x1850 kernel/workqueue.c:3310

worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3391

kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389

ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147

ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

</TASK>

Allocated by task 2:

kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]

kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68

unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:319 [inline]

__kasan_slab_alloc+0x66/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:345

kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:247 [inline]

slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4086 [inline]

slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4135 [inline]

kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x16b/0x320 mm/slub.c:4187

alloc_task_struct_node kernel/fork.c:180 [inline]

dup_task_struct+0x57/0x8c0 kernel/fork.c:1107

copy_process+0x5d1/0x3d50 kernel/fork.c:2206

kernel_clone+0x223/0x880 kernel/fork.c:2787

kernel_thread+0x1bc/0x240 kernel/fork.c:2849

create_kthread kernel/kthread.c:412 [inline]

kthreadd+0x60d/0x810 kernel/kthread.c:765

ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147

ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

Freed by task 61:

kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]

kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68

kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:579

poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]

__kasan_slab_free+0x59/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264

kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]

slab_free_h

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How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Affected software

CVE-2024-49867 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.7.0 up to 6.11.3)
  • linux-kernel (from 6.11 up to 6.11.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 21 October 2024 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

Other advisories for this package

kernel has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

CVE-2024-49867 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-10-21
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.7.0 6.11.3
linux-kernel 6.11 6.11.3

References

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