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btrfs: unset reloc control if transaction commit fails in prepare_to_relocate()

Published Jun 18, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.15 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.15 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-intel-iotg Package: linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.15 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.15 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

btrfs: unset reloc control if transaction commit fails in prepare_to_relocate()

In btrfs_relocate_block_group(), the rc is allocated. Then
btrfs_relocate_block_group() calls

relocate_block_group()
prepare_to_relocate()
set_reloc_control()

that assigns rc to the variable fs_info->reloc_ctl. When
prepare_to_relocate() returns, it calls

btrfs_commit_transaction()
btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups()
btrfs_alloc_path()
kmem_cache_zalloc()

which may fail for example (or other errors could happen). When the
failure occurs, btrfs_relocate_block_group() detects the error and frees
rc and doesn't set fs_info->reloc_ctl to NULL. After that, in
btrfs_init_reloc_root(), rc is retrieved from fs_info->reloc_ctl and
then used, which may cause a use-after-free bug.

This possible bug can be triggered by calling btrfs_ioctl_balance()
before calling btrfs_ioctl_defrag().

To fix this possible bug, in prepare_to_relocate(), check if
btrfs_commit_transaction() fails. If the failure occurs,
unset_reloc_control() is called to set fs_info->reloc_ctl to NULL.

The error log in our fault-injection testing is shown as follows:

[ 58.751070] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in btrfs_init_reloc_root+0x7ca/0x920 [btrfs]
...
[ 58.753577] Call Trace:
...
[ 58.755800] kasan_report+0x45/0x60
[ 58.756066] btrfs_init_reloc_root+0x7ca/0x920 [btrfs]
[ 58.757304] record_root_in_trans+0x792/0xa10 [btrfs]
[ 58.757748] btrfs_record_root_in_trans+0x463/0x4f0 [btrfs]
[ 58.758231] start_transaction+0x896/0x2950 [btrfs]
[ 58.758661] btrfs_defrag_root+0x250/0xc00 [btrfs]
[ 58.759083] btrfs_ioctl_defrag+0x467/0xa00 [btrfs]
[ 58.759513] btrfs_ioctl+0x3c95/0x114e0 [btrfs]
...
[ 58.768510] Allocated by task 23683:
[ 58.768777] ____kasan_kmalloc+0xb5/0xf0
[ 58.769069] __kmalloc+0x227/0x3d0
[ 58.769325] alloc_reloc_control+0x10a/0x3d0 [btrfs]
[ 58.769755] btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x7aa/0x1e20 [btrfs]
[ 58.770228] btrfs_relocate_chunk+0xf1/0x760 [btrfs]
[ 58.770655] __btrfs_balance+0x1326/0x1f10 [btrfs]
[ 58.771071] btrfs_balance+0x3150/0x3d30 [btrfs]
[ 58.771472] btrfs_ioctl_balance+0xd84/0x1410 [btrfs]
[ 58.771902] btrfs_ioctl+0x4caa/0x114e0 [btrfs]
...
[ 58.773337] Freed by task 23683:
...
[ 58.774815] kfree+0xda/0x2b0
[ 58.775038] free_reloc_control+0x1d6/0x220 [btrfs]
[ 58.775465] btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x115c/0x1e20 [btrfs]
[ 58.775944] btrfs_relocate_chunk+0xf1/0x760 [btrfs]
[ 58.776369] __btrfs_balance+0x1326/0x1f10 [btrfs]
[ 58.776784] btrfs_balance+0x3150/0x3d30 [btrfs]
[ 58.777185] btrfs_ioctl_balance+0xd84/0x1410 [btrfs]
[ 58.777621] btrfs_ioctl+0x4caa/0x114e0 [btrfs]
...

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.13 5.15.63

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.0.2-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.0.2-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.0.2-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-53.59 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1023.27 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1023.29 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1024.30.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1022.29 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1020.25 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1008.12 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1018.21 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1018.23 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1021.26 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1015.15 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1022.28 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1018.20 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 +1 5.15.0-1023.27~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1023.29~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1022.29~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 +1 5.15.0-53.59~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1018.23~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1022.28~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1025.28 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +6 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1.150500.6.53.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-64kb +3 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2.150400.24.86.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-docs +2 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLES 15 SP3 kernel-64kb +6 5.3.18-150300.59.211.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLES 15 SP3 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.211.1.150300.18.126.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLES 15 SP3 kernel-obs-build 5.3.18-150300.59.212.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLES 12 SP5 kernel-syms +2 4.12.14-122.266.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02334-1
SLES 11 SP4 kernel-ec2 +5 3.0.101-108.186.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02312-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1.150500.6.53.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 kernel-docs +4 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 kernel-default +1 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2.150400.24.86.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 kernel-docs +2 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP3 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.211.1.150300.18.126.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP3 kernel-docs +4 5.3.18-150300.59.211.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP3 kernel-obs-build 5.3.18-150300.59.212.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1.150500.6.53.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-rt 5.14.21-150500.13.100.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02321-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-source +1 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-source-rt 5.14.21-150500.13.100.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02321-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2.150400.24.86.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150400.15.124.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02322-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2.150400.24.86.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150400.15.124.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02322-1
SLE Micro 5.2 kernel-default 5.3.18-150300.59.211.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLE Micro 5.2 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.211.1.150300.18.126.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLE Micro 5.2 kernel-rt +1 5.3.18-150300.214.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02320-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-default 5.3.18-150300.59.211.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.211.1.150300.18.126.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-rt +1 5.3.18-150300.214.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02320-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5_Update_28 1-150500.11.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP3 kernel-default 5.3.18-150300.59.211.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP3 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP3_Update_59 1-150300.7.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kernel-default 4.12.14-122.266.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02334-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_70 1-8.5.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02334-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +5 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.113.1.150500.6.53.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 kernel-64kb +2 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2.150400.24.86.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 kernel-docs +2 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 kernel-default +1 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2.150400.24.86.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 kernel-syms +1 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2.150400.24.86.2 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 kernel-syms +1 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-64kb +5 5.3.18-150300.59.211.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.211.1.150300.18.126.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-obs-build 5.3.18-150300.59.212.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2 kernel-livepatch-4.14.318-240.529 1.0-0.amzn2 ALAS2-2023-2100
Amazon Linux 2 perf +8 4.14.318-240.529.amzn2 ALAS2-2023-2100

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