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From: ZhengYuan Huang <gality369@gmail.com>
To: dsterba@suse.com, clm@fb.com, bo.li.liu@oracle.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] btrfs: balance: fix null-ptr-deref in btrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:46:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260316134640.2605237-1-gality369@gmail.com> (raw)

[BUG]
Running btrfs balance can trigger a null-ptr-deref before relocating a
data chunk when metadata corruption leaves a chunk in the chunk tree
without a corresponding block group in the in-memory cache:

  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000088-0x000000000000008f]
  RIP: 0010:btrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk+0x40/0x1c0 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:3601
  Call Trace:
    __btrfs_balance fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4217 [inline]
    btrfs_balance+0x2516/0x42b0 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4604
    btrfs_ioctl_balance fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3577 [inline]
    btrfs_ioctl+0x25cf/0x5b90 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:5313
    ...

[CAUSE]
__btrfs_balance() iterates the on-disk chunk tree and passes the chunk
logical bytenr to btrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk() before relocating a data
chunk. That helper then queries the in-memory block group cache:

  cache = btrfs_lookup_block_group(fs_info, chunk_offset);
  chunk_type = cache->flags;   /* cache may be NULL */

On a corrupt image can contain a chunk item whose matching block group
item is missing, so no block group is ever inserted into the cache. In
that case btrfs_lookup_block_group() returns NULL.

The code only guards this with ASSERT(cache), which becomes a no-op when
CONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT is disabled. The subsequent dereference of
cache->flags therefore crashes the kernel.

[FIX]
Add a NULL check after btrfs_lookup_block_group() in
btrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk(). If the lookup fails, emit a btrfs_err()
message identifying the affected bytenr and return -EUCLEAN to report
filesystem corruption instead of dereferencing NULL.

The caller already treats negative returns from
btrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk() as fatal errors, so balance aborts cleanly
and reports the corruption to userspace.

Fixes: a6f93c71d412 ("Btrfs: avoid losing data raid profile when deleting a device")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: ZhengYuan Huang <gality369@gmail.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index 4958e074d420..4657b826b48b 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -3597,7 +3597,12 @@ static int btrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 	u64 bytes_used;
 	u64 chunk_type;
 
 	cache = btrfs_lookup_block_group(fs_info, chunk_offset);
-	ASSERT(cache);
+	if (!cache) {
+		btrfs_err(fs_info,
+			  "balance: chunk at bytenr %llu has no corresponding block group",
+			  chunk_offset);
+		return -EUCLEAN;
+	}
 	chunk_type = cache->flags;
 	btrfs_put_block_group(cache);
 
-- 
2.43.0

             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-16 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-16 13:46 ZhengYuan Huang [this message]
2026-03-16 20:46 ` [PATCH] btrfs: balance: fix null-ptr-deref in btrfs_may_alloc_data_chunk Qu Wenruo
2026-03-17  0:09   ` ZhengYuan Huang

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