CVE-2024-35949
CVE-2024-35949CVE-2024-35949
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: make sure that WRITTEN is set on all metadata blocks
We previously would call btrfs_check_leaf() if we had the check
integrity code enabled, which meant that we could only run the extended
leaf checks if we had WRITTEN set on the header flags.
This leaves a gap in our checking, because we could end up with
corruption on disk where WRITTEN isn't set on the leaf, and then the
extended leaf checks don't get run which we rely on to validate all of
the item pointers to make sure we don't access memory outside of the
extent buffer.
However, since 732fab95abe2 ("btrfs: check-integrity: remove
CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY option") we no longer call
btrfs_check_leaf() from btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty(), which means we only
ever call it on blocks that are being written out, and thus have WRITTEN
set, or that are being read in, which should have WRITTEN set.
Add checks to make sure we have WRITTEN set appropriately, an
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |