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🛡️ CVE-2024-57976 — kernel

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

btrfs: do proper folio cleanup when cow_file_range() failed

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

btrfs: do proper folio cleanup when cow_file_range() failed

[BUG]

When testing with COW fixup marked as BUG_ON() (this is involved with the

new pin_user_pages*() change, which should not result new out-of-band

dirty pages), I hit a crash triggered by the BUG_ON() from hitting COW

fixup path.

This BUG_ON() happens just after a failed btrfs_run_delalloc_range():

BTRFS error (device dm-2): failed to run delalloc range, root 348 ino 405 folio 65536 submit_bitmap 6-15 start 90112 len 106496: -28

------------[ cut here ]------------

kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:1444!

Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 434621 Comm: kworker/u24:8 Tainted: G OE 6.12.0-rc7-custom+ #86

Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022

Workqueue: events_unbound btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space [btrfs]

pc : extent_writepage_io+0x2d4/0x308 [btrfs]

lr : extent_writepage_io+0x2d4/0x308 [btrfs]

Call trace:

extent_writepage_io+0x2d4/0x308 [btrfs]

extent_writepage+0x218/0x330 [btrfs]

extent_write_cache_pages+0x1d4/0x4b0 [btrfs]

btrfs_writepages+0x94/0x150 [btrfs]

do_writepages+0x74/0x190

filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x88/0xc8

start_delalloc_inodes+0x180/0x3b0 [btrfs]

btrfs_start_delalloc_roots+0x174/0x280 [btrfs]

shrink_delalloc+0x114/0x280 [btrfs]

flush_space+0x250/0x2f8 [btrfs]

btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space+0x180/0x228 [btrfs]

process_one_work+0x164/0x408

worker_thread+0x25c/0x388

kthread+0x100/0x118

ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Code: aa1403e1 9402f3ef aa1403e0 9402f36f (d4210000)

---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

[CAUSE]

That failure is mostly from cow_file_range(), where we can hit -ENOSPC.

Although the -ENOSPC is already a bug related to our space reservation

code, let's just focus on the error handling.

For example, we have the following dirty range [0, 64K) of an inode,

with 4K sector size and 4K page size:

0 16K 32K 48K 64K

|///////////////////////////////////////|

|#######################################|

Where |///| means page are still dirty, and |###| means the extent io

tree has EXTENT_DELALLOC flag.

  • Enter extent_writepage() for page 0
  • Enter btrfs_run_delalloc_range() for range [0, 64K)
  • Enter cow_file_range() for range [0, 64K)
  • Function btrfs_reserve_extent() only reserved one 16K extent

So we created extent map and ordered extent for range [0, 16K)

0 16K 32K 48K 64K

|////////|//////////////////////////////|

|<- OE ->|##############################|

And range [0, 16K) has its delalloc flag cleared.

But since we haven't yet submit any bio, involved 4 pages are still

dirty.

  • Function btrfs_reserve_extent() returns with -ENOSPC

Now we have to run error cleanup, which will clear all

EXTENT_DELALLOC* flags and clear the dirty flags for the remaining

ranges:

0 16K 32K 48K 64K

|////////| |

| | |

Note that range [0, 16K) still has its pages dirty.

  • Some time later, writeback is triggered again for the range [0, 16K)

since the page range still has dirty flags.

  • btrfs_run_delalloc_range() will do nothing because there is no

EXTENT_DELALLOC flag.

  • extent_writepage_io() finds page 0 has no ordered flag

Which falls into the COW fixup path, triggering the BUG_ON().

Unfortunately this error handling bug dates back to the introduction of

btrfs. Thankfully with the abuse of COW fixup, at least it won't crash

the kernel.

[FIX]

Instead of immediately unlocking the extent and folios, we keep the extent

and folios locked until either erroring out or the whole delalloc range

finished.

When the whole delalloc range finished without error, we just unlock the

whole range with PAGE_SET_ORDERED (and PAGE_UNLOCK for !keep_locked

cases)

---truncated---

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-2024-57976 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.13.0 up to 6.13.2)
  • linux-kernel (from 6.13 up to 6.13.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 27 February 2025 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)
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:

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 2025-02-27
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.13.0 6.13.2
linux-kernel 6.13 6.13.2

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