This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: add a sanity check for btrfs root in btrfs_search_slot() to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: btrfs-add-a-sanity-check-for-btrfs-root-in-btrfs_sea.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9d8ebb57fe4b28f71965d50f33f33248fb79c0eb Author: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Oct 25 12:55:53 2024 +0800 btrfs: add a sanity check for btrfs root in btrfs_search_slot() [ Upstream commit 3ed51857a50f530ac7a1482e069dfbd1298558d4 ] Syzbot reports a null-ptr-deref in btrfs_search_slot(). The reproducer is using rescue=ibadroots, and the extent tree root is corrupted thus the extent tree is NULL. When scrub tries to search the extent tree to gather the needed extent info, btrfs_search_slot() doesn't check if the target root is NULL or not, resulting the null-ptr-deref. Add sanity check for btrfs root before using it in btrfs_search_slot(). Reported-by: syzbot+3030e17bd57a73d39bd7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 42437a6386ff ("btrfs: introduce mount option rescue=ignorebadroots") Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3030e17bd57a73d39bd7 CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.15+ Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: syzbot+3030e17bd57a73d39bd7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c index 46550c26e6844..347934eb5198d 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c @@ -1973,7 +1973,7 @@ int btrfs_search_slot(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, struct btrfs_root *root, const struct btrfs_key *key, struct btrfs_path *p, int ins_len, int cow) { - struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = root->fs_info; + struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info; struct extent_buffer *b; int slot; int ret; @@ -1986,6 +1986,10 @@ int btrfs_search_slot(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, struct btrfs_root *root, int min_write_lock_level; int prev_cmp; + if (!root) + return -EINVAL; + + fs_info = root->fs_info; might_sleep(); lowest_level = p->lowest_level;