# CVE-2024-35784: btrfs: fix deadlock with fiemap and extent locking

> A local attacker can trigger a deadlock in the Linux kernel's btrfs filesystem via fiemap operations, causing a denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 17 May 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-55410, BELL-CVE-2024-35784, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35784, GHSA-hg9c-4q92-whw7, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-35784, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-35784, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-35784, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35784

## What is CVE-2024-35784?

CVE-2024-35784 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix deadlock with fiemap and extent locking

While working on the patchset to remove extent locking I got a lockdep
splat with fiemap and pagefaulting with my new extent lock replacement
lock.

This deadlock exists with our normal code, we just don't have lockdep
annotations with the extent locking so we've never noticed it.

Since we're copying the fiemap extent to user space on every iteration
we have the chance of pagefaulting.  Because we hold the extent lock for
the entire range we could mkwrite into a range in the file that we have
mmap'ed.  This would deadlock with the following stack trace

[<0>] lock_extent+0x28d/0x2f0
[<0>] btrfs_page_mkwrite+0x273/0x8a0
[<0>] do_page_mkwrite+0x50/0xb0
[<0>] do_fault+0xc1/0x7b0
[<0>] __handle_mm_fault+0x2fa/0x460
[<0>] handle_mm_fault+0xa4/0x330
[<0>] do_user_addr_fault+0x1f4/0x800
[<0>] exc_page_fault+0x7c/0x1e0
[<0>] asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
[<0>] rep_movs_alternative+0x33/0x70
[<0>] _copy_to_user+0x49/0x70
[<0>] fiemap_fill_next_extent+0xc8/0x120
[<0>] emit_fiemap_extent+0x4d/0xa0
[<0>] extent_fiemap+0x7f8/0xad0
[<0>] btrfs_fiemap+0x49/0x80
[<0>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x3e1/0xb50
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x94/0x1a0
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

I wrote an fstest to reproduce this deadlock without my replacement lock
and verified that the deadlock exists with our existing locking.

To fix this simply don't take the extent lock for the entire duration of
the fiemap.  This is safe in general because we keep track of where we
are when we're searching the tree, so if an ordered extent updates in
the middle of our fiemap call we'll still emit the correct extents
because we know what offset we were on before.

The only place we maintain the lock is searching delalloc.  Since the
delalloc stuff can change during writeback we want to lock the extent
range so we have a consistent view of delalloc at the time we're
checking to see if we need to set the delalloc flag.

With this patch applied we no longer deadlock with my testcase.

Weakness: CWE-667 (Improper Locking)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-35784?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-35784?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-35784 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35784 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-35784 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-35784 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35784 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35784/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35784/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-35784
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35784
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-35784

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