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Unscored CVE-2023-53538 EUVD-2025-32354GHSA-42hw-46gp-ffq7

btrfs: insert tree mod log move in push_node_left

Published Oct 4, 2025 · Updated Oct 3, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

btrfs: insert tree mod log move in push_node_left

There is a fairly unlikely race condition in tree mod log rewind that
can result in a kernel panic which has the following trace:

[530.569] BTRFS critical (device sda3): unable to find logical 0 length 4096
[530.585] BTRFS critical (device sda3): unable to find logical 0 length 4096
[530.602] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000002
[530.618] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[530.629] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[530.641] PGD 0 P4D 0
[530.647] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[530.654] CPU: 30 PID: 398973 Comm: below Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S O K 5.12.0-0_fbk13_clang_7455_gb24de3bdb045 #1
[530.680] Hardware name: Quanta Mono Lake-M.2 SATA 1HY9U9Z001G/Mono Lake-M.2 SATA, BIOS F20_3A15 08/16/2017
[530.703] RIP: 0010:__btrfs_map_block+0xaa/0xd00
[530.755] RSP: 0018:ffffc9002c2f7600 EFLAGS: 00010246
[530.767] RAX: ffffffffffffffea RBX: ffff888292e41000 RCX: f2702d8b8be15100
[530.784] RDX: ffff88885fda6fb8 RSI: ffff88885fd973c8 RDI: ffff88885fd973c8
[530.800] RBP: ffff888292e410d0 R08: ffffffff82fd7fd0 R09: 00000000fffeffff
[530.816] R10: ffffffff82e57fd0 R11: ffffffff82e57d70 R12: 0000000000000000
[530.832] R13: 0000000000001000 R14: 0000000000001000 R15: ffffc9002c2f76f0
[530.848] FS: 00007f38d64af000(0000) GS:ffff88885fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[530.866] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[530.880] CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 00000002b6770004 CR4: 00000000003706e0
[530.896] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[530.912] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[530.928] Call Trace:
[530.934] ? btrfs_printk+0x13b/0x18c
[530.943] ? btrfs_bio_counter_inc_blocked+0x3d/0x130
[530.955] btrfs_map_bio+0x75/0x330
[530.963] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x12a/0x2d0
[530.973] ? btrfs_submit_metadata_bio+0x63/0x100
[530.984] btrfs_submit_metadata_bio+0xa4/0x100
[530.995] submit_extent_page+0x30f/0x360
[531.004] read_extent_buffer_pages+0x49e/0x6d0
[531.015] ? submit_extent_page+0x360/0x360
[531.025] btree_read_extent_buffer_pages+0x5f/0x150
[531.037] read_tree_block+0x37/0x60
[531.046] read_block_for_search+0x18b/0x410
[531.056] btrfs_search_old_slot+0x198/0x2f0
[531.066] resolve_indirect_ref+0xfe/0x6f0
[531.076] ? ulist_alloc+0x31/0x60
[531.084] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x12e/0x2b0
[531.095] find_parent_nodes+0x720/0x1830
[531.105] ? ulist_alloc+0x10/0x60
[531.113] iterate_extent_inodes+0xea/0x370
[531.123] ? btrfs_previous_extent_item+0x8f/0x110
[531.134] ? btrfs_search_path_in_tree+0x240/0x240
[531.146] iterate_inodes_from_logical+0x98/0xd0
[531.157] ? btrfs_search_path_in_tree+0x240/0x240
[531.168] btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino+0xd9/0x180
[531.179] btrfs_ioctl+0xe2/0x2eb0

This occurs when logical inode resolution takes a tree mod log sequence
number, and then while backref walking hits a rewind on a busy node
which has the following sequence of tree mod log operations (numbers
filled in from a specific example, but they are somewhat arbitrary)

REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 532
REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 531
REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 530
...
REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 0
REMOVE slot 455
REMOVE slot 454
REMOVE slot 453
...
REMOVE slot 0
ADD slot 455
ADD slot 454
ADD slot 453
...
ADD slot 0
MOVE src slot 0 -> dst slot 456 nritems 533
REMOVE slot 455
REMOVE slot 454
REMOVE slot 453
...
REMOVE slot 0

When this sequence gets applied via btrfs_tree_mod_log_rewind, it
allocates a fresh rewind eb, and first inserts the correct key info for
the 533 elements, then overwrites the first 456 of them, then decrements
the count by 456 via the add ops, then rewinds the move by doing a
memmove from 456:988->0:532. We have never written anything past 532,
---truncated---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 3.7 6.1.189

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 6.4.4-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.4.4-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.190-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-intel +9 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +49 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 14 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-preview 22.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux +21 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux +12 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux +7 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux +3 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150700.20.18.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4132-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1.150700.17.15.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.55.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4128-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1.150600.12.34.2 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-36.1.21.13 SUSE-SU-2025:21056-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-38.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21064-1
SLE Micro 6.1 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-36.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21056-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-36.1.21.13 SUSE-SU-2025:21040-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-38.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21052-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-36.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21040-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-default 6.4.0-150700.53.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_6 1-150700.1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4141-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_6 1-150700.15.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4057-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-default 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6-RT_Update_17 1-150600.1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_17 1-150600.13.5.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP7 kernel-rt +2 6.4.0-150700.7.22.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4141-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.6 dtb-aarch64 +10 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.55.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4128-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.78.1.150600.12.34.2 SUSE-SU-2025:4140-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-rt +3 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 2 (CBL-Mariner) kernel No fix yet —

Advisories 11

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