From: ZhengYuan Huang <gality369@gmail.com>
To: dsterba@suse.com, clm@fb.com, idryomov@gmail.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
baijiaju1990@gmail.com, r33s3n6@gmail.com, zzzccc427@gmail.com,
ZhengYuan Huang <gality369@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] btrfs: balance: fix null-ptr-deref in chunk_usage_range_filter
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:37:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260314123741.1439792-3-gality369@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260314123741.1439792-1-gality369@gmail.com>
[BUG]
Running btrfs balance with a usage range filter (-dusage=min..max) can
trigger a null-ptr-deref when metadata corruption causes a chunk to have
no corresponding block group in the in-memory cache:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000070-0x0000000000000077]
RIP: 0010:chunk_usage_range_filter fs/btrfs/volumes.c:3845 [inline]
RIP: 0010:should_balance_chunk fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4031 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__btrfs_balance fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4182 [inline]
RIP: 0010:btrfs_balance+0x249e/0x4320 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4618
...
Call Trace:
btrfs_ioctl_balance fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3577 [inline]
btrfs_ioctl+0x25cf/0x5b90 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:5313
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
...
The bug is reproducible on next-20260312 with our dynamic metadata
fuzzing tool, which corrupts btrfs metadata at runtime.
[CAUSE]
Two separate data structures are involved:
1. The on-disk chunk tree, which records every chunk (logical address
space region) and is iterated by __btrfs_balance().
2. The in-memory block group cache (fs_info->block_group_cache_tree),
which is built at mount time by btrfs_read_block_groups() and holds
a struct btrfs_block_group for each chunk. This cache is what the
usage range filter queries.
On a well-formed filesystem, these two are kept in 1:1 correspondence.
However, btrfs_read_block_groups() builds the cache from block group
items in the extent tree, not directly from the chunk tree. A corrupted
image can therefore contain a chunk item in the chunk tree whose
corresponding block group item is absent from the extent tree; that
chunk's block group is then never inserted into the in-memory cache.
When balance iterates the chunk tree and reaches such an orphaned chunk,
should_balance_chunk() calls chunk_usage_range_filter(), which queries
the block group cache:
cache = btrfs_lookup_block_group(fs_info, chunk_offset);
chunk_used = cache->used; /* cache may be NULL */
btrfs_lookup_block_group() returns NULL silently when no cached entry
covers chunk_offset. chunk_usage_range_filter() does not check the return
value, so the immediately following dereference of cache->used triggers
the crash.
[FIX]
Add a NULL check after btrfs_lookup_block_group() in
chunk_usage_range_filter(). When the lookup fails, emit a btrfs_err()
message identifying the affected bytenr and return -EUCLEAN to indicate
filesystem corruption.
Since chunk_usage_range_filter() now has an error return path, change its
return type from bool to int (negative = error, 0 = do not balance,
positive = balance). Update the BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_USAGE_RANGE branch in
should_balance_chunk() to propagate negative errors instead of treating
them as a normal filter result.
After the fix, the same corruption is correctly detected and reported
by the filter, and the null-ptr-deref is no longer triggered.
Fixes: bc3094673f22 ("btrfs: extend balance filter usage to take minimum and maximum")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: ZhengYuan Huang <gality369@gmail.com>
---
fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index 7c21ac249383..4958e074d420 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -3832,8 +3832,8 @@ static bool chunk_profiles_filter(u64 chunk_type, struct btrfs_balance_args *bar
return true;
}
-static bool chunk_usage_range_filter(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, u64 chunk_offset,
- struct btrfs_balance_args *bargs)
+static int chunk_usage_range_filter(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, u64 chunk_offset,
+ struct btrfs_balance_args *bargs)
{
struct btrfs_block_group *cache;
u64 chunk_used;
@@ -3842,6 +3842,12 @@ static bool chunk_usage_range_filter(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, u64 chunk_of
bool ret = true;
cache = btrfs_lookup_block_group(fs_info, chunk_offset);
+ if (!cache) {
+ btrfs_err(fs_info,
+ "balance: chunk at bytenr %llu has no corresponding block group",
+ chunk_offset);
+ return -EUCLEAN;
+ }
chunk_used = cache->used;
if (bargs->usage_min == 0)
@@ -4027,9 +4033,13 @@ static int should_balance_chunk(struct extent_buffer *leaf, struct btrfs_chunk *
return filter_ret;
if (filter_ret)
return false;
- } else if ((bargs->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_USAGE_RANGE) &&
- chunk_usage_range_filter(fs_info, chunk_offset, bargs)) {
- return false;
+ } else if (bargs->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_USAGE_RANGE) {
+ int filter_ret = chunk_usage_range_filter(fs_info, chunk_offset, bargs);
+
+ if (filter_ret < 0)
+ return filter_ret;
+ if (filter_ret)
+ return false;
}
/* devid filter */
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-14 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-14 12:37 [PATCH v2 0/3] btrfs: fix balance NULL derefs and chunk/bg mapping verification ZhengYuan Huang
2026-03-14 12:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] btrfs: balance: fix null-ptr-deref in chunk_usage_filter ZhengYuan Huang
2026-03-23 17:40 ` David Sterba
2026-03-24 2:56 ` ZhengYuan Huang
2026-03-14 12:37 ` ZhengYuan Huang [this message]
2026-03-14 12:37 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] btrfs: fix check_chunk_block_group_mappings() to actually iterate all chunks ZhengYuan Huang
2026-03-23 17:52 ` David Sterba
2026-03-24 2:57 ` ZhengYuan Huang
2026-03-23 17:33 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] btrfs: fix balance NULL derefs and chunk/bg mapping verification David Sterba
2026-03-24 2:53 ` ZhengYuan Huang
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