From: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
To: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>, 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH btrfs v2] btrfs: reject free space cache with more entries than pages
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:00:20 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac0ae1f0-8c8a-46de-ab9b-bdf7bfb1c799@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260610172926.844265-1-xmei5@asu.edu>
在 2026/6/11 02:59, Xiang Mei 写道:
> 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>
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
I'll add a Link: tag to the reproducer at merge time.
But I still strongly prefer you guys to submit a bug report/reproducer
before sending out a fix.
> ---
> 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;
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-10 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-10 17:29 Xiang Mei
2026-06-10 17:50 ` Xiang Mei
2026-06-10 21:30 ` Qu Wenruo [this message]
2026-06-10 21:44 ` Xiang Mei
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