From: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
To: guolingxing <guolingxing@tju.edu.cn>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>,
Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: prevent deleting the wrong subvolume by ID
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:44:10 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6e38b8b-130b-40d4-b4aa-30e9bdc79618@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261018153810.2692021-1-guolingxing@tju.edu.cn>
在 2026/10/19 02:08, guolingxing 写道:
> When deleting a subvolume by ID, btrfs_ioctl_snap_destroy() first
> resolves the requested ID to a name, then looks up that name again
> under the parent directory lock.
>
> A concurrent rename can change which subvolume is associated with
> the name between these operations. Since the deletion path does not
> verify the ID of the resolved subvolume, it can delete a different
> subvolume while leaving the requested one intact.
>
> This was reproduced by repeatedly exchanging the names of two
> subvolumes using renameat2(RENAME_EXCHANGE) while deleting one of
> them by ID. The wrong subvolume was deleted in 9 out of 14 independent
> tests.
>
> Fix this by checking that the resolved subvolume ID matches the
> requested ID while holding the parent directory lock. Return -EAGAIN
> on a mismatch so that userspace can retry the operation instead of
> being told that the requested subvolume does not exist.
>
> Fixes: 949964c92843 ("btrfs: add new BTRFS_IOC_SNAP_DESTROY_V2 ioctl")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: guolingxing <guolingxing@tju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Thanks,
Qu
> ---
> Changes since v1:
> - Return -EAGAIN instead of -ENOENT on a subvolume ID mismatch,
> as suggested by Qu Wenruo.
>
>
> Testing:
> - Unpatched kernel: 9 wrong deletions in 14 independent runs.
> - v2 patched kernel: 0 wrong deletions in 30 independent runs.
> - EAGAIN was observed in 14 runs; all 30 runs successfully deleted
> the requested subvolume while preserving the other one.
>
> fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> index 576cd76ca0bf..d82a7f3f3d14 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
> @@ -2380,6 +2380,17 @@ static noinline int btrfs_ioctl_snap_destroy(struct file *file,
>
> inode = d_inode(dentry);
> dest = BTRFS_I(inode)->root;
> +
> + /*
> + * A concurrent rename may have changed which subvolume the name
> + * refers to. Verify that the resolved ID still matches the requested ID.
> + */
> + if (destroy_v2 && (vol_args2->flags & BTRFS_SUBVOL_SPEC_BY_ID) &&
> + btrfs_root_id(dest) != vol_args2->subvolid) {
> + ret = -EAGAIN;
> + goto out_end_removing;
> + }
> +
> if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
> /*
> * Regular user. Only allow this with a special mount
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-18 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-18 7:37 [PATCH] " guolingxing
2026-10-18 9:09 ` Qu Wenruo
2026-10-18 14:45 ` 郭玲兴
2026-10-18 15:38 ` [PATCH v2] " guolingxing
2026-10-18 21:14 ` Qu Wenruo [this message]
2026-10-19 15:05 ` David Sterba
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