From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: guolingxing@tju.edu.cn, wqu@suse.com, dsterba@suse.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] btrfs: prevent deleting the wrong subvolume by ID" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 20:06:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261109200632-failed-6.12-1960146913b3@kernel.org> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 1960146913b31b288ed2cd607d103ee3b41681d4
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261109200632-failed-6.12-1960146913b3@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' 'HEAD^..'
Thanks,
Sasha
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 1960146913b31b288ed2cd607d103ee3b41681d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: guolingxing <guolingxing@tju.edu.cn>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:38:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: prevent deleting the wrong subvolume by ID
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
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: guolingxing <guolingxing@tju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
---
fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 43a945345cbe1..847fdc19bd402 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -2393,6 +2393,17 @@ 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
--
2.53.0
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