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

btrfs: always do the basic checks for btrfs_qgroup_inherit structure

[BUG]
Syzbot reports the following regression detected by KASAN:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in btrfs_qgroup_inherit+0x42e/0x2e20 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:3277
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88814628ca50 by task syz-executor318/5171

CPU: 0 PID: 5171 Comm: syz-executor318 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-syzkaller-00010-g2ab795141095 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/02/2024
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:114
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488
kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601
btrfs_qgroup_inherit+0x42e/0x2e20 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:3277
create_pending_snapshot+0x1359/0x29b0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1854
create_pending_snapshots+0x195/0x1d0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1922
btrfs_commit_transaction+0xf20/0x3740 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2382
create_snapshot+0x6a1/0x9e0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:875
btrfs_mksubvol+0x58f/0x710 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1029
btrfs_mksnapshot+0xb5/0xf0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1075
__btrfs_ioctl_snap_create+0x387/0x4b0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1340
btrfs_ioctl_snap_create_v2+0x1f2/0x3a0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1422
btrfs_ioctl+0x99e/0xc60
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fcbf1992509
RSP: 002b:00007fcbf1928218 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fcbf1a1f618 RCX: 00007fcbf1992509
RDX: 0000000020000280 RSI: 0000000050009417 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fcbf1a1f610 R08: 00007ffea1298e97 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fcbf19eb660
R13: 00000000200002b8 R14: 00007fcbf19e60c0 R15: 0030656c69662f2e
</TASK>

And it also pinned it down to commit b5357cb268c4 ("btrfs: qgroup: do not
check qgroup inherit if qgroup is disabled").

[CAUSE]
That offending commit skips the whole qgroup inherit check if qgroup is
not enabled.

But that also skips the very basic checks like
num_ref_copies/num_excl_copies and the structure size checks.

Meaning if a qgroup enable/disable race is happening at the background,
and we pass a btrfs_qgroup_inherit structure when the qgroup is
disabled, the check would be completely skipped.

Then at the time of transaction commitment, qgroup is re-enabled and
btrfs_qgroup_inherit() is going to use the incorrect structure and
causing the above KASAN error.

[FIX]
Make btrfs_qgroup_check_inherit() only skip the source qgroup checks.
So that even if invalid btrfs_qgroup_inherit structure is passed in, we
can still reject invalid ones no matter if qgroup is enabled or not.

Furthermore we do already have an extra safety inside
btrfs_qgroup_inherit(), which would just ignore invalid qgroup sources,
so even if we only skip the qgroup source check we're still safe.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7089-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7089-2 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7089-3 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7089-4 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7089-5 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7089-6 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7089-7 Linux kernel (Low Latency) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7090-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7095-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7156-1 Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.10:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H'}


Thu, 12 Sep 2024 02:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-125
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H'}


Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-04T12:57:40.209Z

Reserved: 2024-07-29T15:50:41.176Z

Link: CVE-2024-42111

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T04:54:32.553Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-07-30T08:15:03.563

Modified: 2025-09-26T15:27:54.053

Link: CVE-2024-42111

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-07-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-42111 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-13T11:15:12Z