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Unscored CVE-2025-37827 EUVD-2025-13973GHSA-2jfj-pqmf-3wq3

btrfs: zoned: return EIO on RAID1 block group write pointer mismatch

Published May 8, 2025 · Updated May 23, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

btrfs: zoned: return EIO on RAID1 block group write pointer mismatch

There was a bug report about a NULL pointer dereference in
__btrfs_add_free_space_zoned() that ultimately happens because a
conversion from the default metadata profile DUP to a RAID1 profile on two
disks.

The stack trace has the following signature:

BTRFS error (device sdc): zoned: write pointer offset mismatch of zones in raid1 profile
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:__btrfs_add_free_space_zoned.isra.0+0x61/0x1a0
RSP: 0018:ffffa236b6f3f6d0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff96c8132f3400 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000010000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff96c8132f3410
RBP: 0000000010000000 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000ffffffff R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff96c758f65a40 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 000011aac0000000
FS: 00007fdab1cb2900(0000) GS:ffff96e60ca00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000058 CR3: 00000001a05ae000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27
? page_fault_oops+0x15c/0x2f0
? exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x180
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
? __btrfs_add_free_space_zoned.isra.0+0x61/0x1a0
btrfs_add_free_space_async_trimmed+0x34/0x40
btrfs_add_new_free_space+0x107/0x120
btrfs_make_block_group+0x104/0x2b0
btrfs_create_chunk+0x977/0xf20
btrfs_chunk_alloc+0x174/0x510
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
btrfs_inc_block_group_ro+0x1b1/0x230
btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x9e/0x410
btrfs_relocate_chunk+0x3f/0x130
btrfs_balance+0x8ac/0x12b0
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x14c/0x3e0
btrfs_ioctl+0x2686/0x2a80
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? ioctl_has_perm.constprop.0.isra.0+0xd2/0x120
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x82/0x160
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? __memcg_slab_free_hook+0x11a/0x170
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? kmem_cache_free+0x3f0/0x450
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x10/0x210
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x160
? sysfs_emit+0xaf/0xc0
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? seq_read_iter+0x207/0x460
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? vfs_read+0x29c/0x370
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x10/0x210
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x160
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x180
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7fdab1e0ca6d
RSP: 002b:00007ffeb2b60c80 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007fdab1e0ca6d
RDX: 00007ffeb2b60d80 RSI: 00000000c4009420 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffeb2b60cd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000013
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffeb2b6343b R14: 00007ffeb2b60d80 R15: 0000000000000001
</TASK>
CR2: 0000000000000058
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The 1st line is the most interesting here:

BTRFS error (device sdc): zoned: write pointer offset mismatch of zones in raid1 profile

When a RAID1 block-group is created and a write pointer mismatch between
the disks in the RAID set is detected, btrfs sets the alloc_offset to the
length of the block group marking it as full. Afterwards the code expects
that a balance operation will evacuate the data in this block-group and
repair the problems.

But before this is possible, the new space of this block-group will be
accounted in the free space cache. But in __btrfs_
---truncated---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.10.10 – < 6.11, 6.11 6.11

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 6.12.27-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.27-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 24.04 LTS linux-bluefield 6.8.0-1016.20 —
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-azure-fde No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.04 linux 6.14.0-22.22 USN-7594-1
Ubuntu 25.04 linux-aws +3 6.14.0-1007.7 USN-7594-3, USN-7594-2, USN-7594-1
Ubuntu 25.04 linux-gcp 6.14.0-1008.8 USN-7594-1
Ubuntu 25.04 linux-realtime 6.14.0-1004.4 USN-7594-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-100.100 USN-8028-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws +1 6.8.0-1046.49 USN-8028-5
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1046.52 USN-8074-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 6.8.0-1046.53 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-nvidia 6.8.0-1039.42 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1047.50 USN-8031-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.14 6.14.0-1011.11~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1043.48 USN-8031-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1030.33 USN-8028-5
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1044.44 USN-8028-8
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-intel +10 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-100.100.1 USN-8052-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1046.49.1 USN-8028-7
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1020.20 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1043.44 USN-8028-5
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1047.51 USN-8028-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1023.24 USN-8052-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 +1 6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1 USN-8028-5
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1 USN-8126-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-6.8 6.8.0-1046.53~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1047.50~22.04.2 USN-8031-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 +1 6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1 USN-8028-6
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1044.44~22.04.1 USN-8028-8
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-100.100.1~22.04.1 USN-8028-6
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1043.44~22.04.1 USN-8028-5
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2037.38 USN-8028-3
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1041.42 USN-8028-3
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 6.14.0-1010.10~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1041.42~22.04.1 USN-8028-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 6.8.0-1046.49+fips1 USN-8028-4
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 6.8.0-1046.52+fips1 USN-8074-2
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips 6.8.0-100.100+fips1 USN-8028-4
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 6.8.0-1047.50+fips1 USN-8031-2

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 bpftool +14 6.12.29-33.102.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-994
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.12.29-33.102 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-994

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-101.33.4.3.el10uek ELSA-2025-20530, ELSA-2025-20480

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