Bug 2395377 (CVE-2023-53247) - CVE-2023-53247 kernel: btrfs: set_page_extent_mapped after read_folio in btrfs_cont_expand
Summary: CVE-2023-53247 kernel: btrfs: set_page_extent_mapped after read_folio in btrf...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53247
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-15 15:10 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-15 19:11 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-15 15:10:33 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: set_page_extent_mapped after read_folio in btrfs_cont_expand

While trying to get the subpage blocksize tests running, I hit the
following panic on generic/476

  assertion failed: PagePrivate(page) && page->private, in fs/btrfs/subpage.c:229
  kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/subpage.c:229!
  Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 1 PID: 1453 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7+ #12
  Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20230301gitf80f052277c8-26.fc38 03/01/2023
  pstate: 61400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
  pc : btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
  lr : btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
  Call trace:
   btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
   btrfs_subpage_clear_checked+0x38/0xc0
   btrfs_page_clear_checked+0x48/0x98
   btrfs_truncate_block+0x5d0/0x6a8
   btrfs_cont_expand+0x5c/0x528
   btrfs_write_check.isra.0+0xf8/0x150
   btrfs_buffered_write+0xb4/0x760
   btrfs_do_write_iter+0x2f8/0x4b0
   btrfs_file_write_iter+0x1c/0x30
   do_iter_readv_writev+0xc8/0x158
   do_iter_write+0x9c/0x210
   vfs_iter_write+0x24/0x40
   iter_file_splice_write+0x224/0x390
   direct_splice_actor+0x38/0x68
   splice_direct_to_actor+0x12c/0x260
   do_splice_direct+0x90/0xe8
   generic_copy_file_range+0x50/0x90
   vfs_copy_file_range+0x29c/0x470
   __arm64_sys_copy_file_range+0xcc/0x498
   invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x80/0xd8
   do_el0_svc+0x6c/0x168
   el0_svc+0x50/0x1b0
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0x114/0x120
   el0t_64_sync+0x194/0x198

This happens because during btrfs_cont_expand we'll get a page, set it
as mapped, and if it's not Uptodate we'll read it.  However between the
read and re-locking the page we could have called release_folio() on the
page, but left the page in the file mapping.  release_folio() can clear
the page private, and thus further down we blow up when we go to modify
the subpage bits.

Fix this by putting the set_page_extent_mapped() after the read.  This
is safe because read_folio() will call set_page_extent_mapped() before
it does the read, and then if we clear page private but leave it on the
mapping we're completely safe re-setting set_page_extent_mapped().  With
this patch I can now run generic/476 without panicing.


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