[PATCH v1] btrfs: wait for a grace period before freeing a new device

From: Binbin Deng

Date: Tue Sep 29 2026 - 08:16:59 EST


KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free in btrfs_statfs() walking
fs_devices->devices. btrfs_init_new_device() publishes the new device
with list_add_rcu() and can fail afterwards, for example with -ENOSPC
in init_first_rw_device() when a user with CAP_SYS_ADMIN adds a device
that is too small to a seeding filesystem mounted read-only. The error
path removes the entry with list_del_rcu() and frees the object in
btrfs_free_device() without waiting for a grace period, while
btrfs_calc_avail_data_space() and btrfs_ioctl_fs_info() keep reading
the device list under rcu_read_lock().

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in btrfs_statfs+0x11af/0x14a0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880096be858 by task poc/252
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
print_report+0xd0/0x630
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
? filename_lookup+0x1a9/0x540
? btrfs_statfs+0x11af/0x14a0
kasan_report+0xce/0x100
? btrfs_statfs+0x11af/0x14a0
btrfs_statfs+0x11af/0x14a0
statfs_by_dentry+0x117/0x1e0
user_statfs+0xac/0x130
? __pfx_user_statfs+0x10/0x10
__do_sys_statfs+0x80/0xe0
? __pfx___do_sys_statfs+0x10/0x10
do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Allocated by task 256:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x158/0x370
btrfs_alloc_device+0xad/0x3e0
btrfs_init_new_device+0x3e8/0x36e0
btrfs_ioctl+0x150d/0x6c20
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 256:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70
kfree+0x121/0x380
btrfs_init_new_device+0x4a0/0x36e0
btrfs_ioctl+0x150d/0x6c20
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fix by waiting for an RCU grace period after the device is removed
from the list and before it is freed.

Fixes: 1f78160ce1b1 ("Btrfs: using rcu lock in the reader side of devices list")
Signed-off-by: Binbin Deng <18983559317@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index 85ea9c5d4536..2693dacd1da7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -3168,6 +3168,7 @@ int btrfs_init_new_device(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, const char *device_path
btrfs_update_per_profile_avail(fs_info);
mutex_unlock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
mutex_unlock(&fs_info->fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
+ synchronize_rcu();
error_trans:
if (trans)
btrfs_end_transaction(trans);
--
2.43.0