From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
To: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>, Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: [PATCH btrfs v2] btrfs: reject free space cache with more entries than pages
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:29:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260610172926.844265-1-xmei5@asu.edu> (raw)
When loading a v1 free space cache, __load_free_space_cache() takes
num_entries and num_bitmaps straight from the on-disk
btrfs_free_space_header. That header is stored in the tree_root under a key
with type 0, which the tree-checker has no case for, so neither count is
validated before the load trusts it.
The load loops num_entries times and maps the next page whenever the current
one runs out, going through io_ctl_check_crc() -> io_ctl_map_page(), which
does io_ctl->pages[io_ctl->index++]. But pages[] is allocated in
io_ctl_init() from the cache inode's i_size, not from num_entries:
num_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(inode), PAGE_SIZE);
io_ctl->pages = kcalloc(num_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);
So if num_entries claims more records than the pages can hold, io_ctl->index
runs off the end of pages[]. The write side never hits this because
io_ctl_add_entry() and io_ctl_add_bitmap() both stop once
io_ctl->index >= io_ctl->num_pages; the read side just never had the same
check.
To trigger it, take a clean cache (num_entries = <N> here), set num_entries
in the header to 0x10000, and fix up the leaf checksum so it still passes
the tree-checker. The cache inode has i_size = 65536, so num_pages is 16 and
pages[] is a 16-pointer (kmalloc-128) array. The load now tries to read
65536 entries, io_ctl->index walks up to 16, and pages[16] is read past the
array:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in io_ctl_check_crc (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:420 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:565)
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800c833a80 by task kworker/u8:3/58
io_ctl_check_crc (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:420 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:565)
__load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:655 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:820)
load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:1017)
caching_thread (fs/btrfs/block-group.c:880)
btrfs_work_helper (fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:312)
process_one_work
worker_thread
kthread
ret_from_fork
free-space-cache.c:420 is io_ctl_map_page(), inlined into io_ctl_check_crc()
at line 565, which is why that is the frame KASAN names. The out-of-bounds
slot is then treated as a struct page and handed to crc32c(), so the bad
read turns into a GP fault.
Add the missing check to io_ctl_check_crc(), which is where both the entry
loop and the bitmap loop end up. When num_entries is too large the load now
fails like any corrupt cache: __load_free_space_cache() drops it and rebuilds
the free space from the extent tree, so a valid cache is never rejected.
Fixes: 5b0e95bf607d ("Btrfs: inline checksums into the disk free space cache")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
---
v2: add more details in the commit message
fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
index ab22e4f9ffdd..bbc4db7fe74b 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
@@ -555,6 +555,9 @@ static int io_ctl_check_crc(struct btrfs_io_ctl *io_ctl, int index)
u32 crc = ~(u32)0;
unsigned offset = 0;
+ if (index >= io_ctl->num_pages)
+ return -EIO;
+
if (index == 0)
offset = sizeof(u32) * io_ctl->num_pages;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-06-10 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-10 17:29 Xiang Mei [this message]
2026-06-10 17:50 ` Xiang Mei
2026-06-10 21:30 ` Qu Wenruo
2026-06-10 21:44 ` Xiang Mei
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