vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2024-35849: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 17, 2024
Added
Jun 12, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

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

btrfs: fix information leak in btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino()

Syzbot reported the following information leak for in
btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino():

BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_user+0xbc/0x110 lib/usercopy.c:40
instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]
_copy_to_user+0xbc/0x110 lib/usercopy.c:40
copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:191 [inline]
btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino+0x440/0x750 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3499
btrfs_ioctl+0x714/0x1260
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:904 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x261/0x450 fs/ioctl.c:890
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x96/0xe0 fs/ioctl.c:890
x64_sys_call+0x1883/0x3b50 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was created at:
__kmalloc_large_node+0x231/0x370 mm/slub.c:3921
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:3954 [inline]
__kmalloc_node+0xb07/0x1060 mm/slub.c:3973
kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:648 [inline]
kvmalloc_node+0xc0/0x2d0 mm/util.c:634
kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:766 [inline]
init_data_container+0x49/0x1e0 fs/btrfs/backref.c:2779
btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino+0x17c/0x750 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3480
btrfs_ioctl+0x714/0x1260
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:904 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x261/0x450 fs/ioctl.c:890
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x96/0xe0 fs/ioctl.c:890
x64_sys_call+0x1883/0x3b50 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Bytes 40-65535 of 65536 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 65536 starts at ffff888045a40000

This happens, because we're copying a 'struct btrfs_data_container' back
to user-space. This btrfs_data_container is allocated in
'init_data_container()' via kvmalloc(), which does not zero-fill the
memory.

Fix this by using kvzalloc() which zeroes out the memory on allocation.

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