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High · 8.4 CVE-2026-46251 EUVD-2026-34113GHSA-c5jw-wr2h-vpj4

btrfs: fix block_group_tree dirty_list corruption

Published Jun 3, 2026 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

btrfs: fix block_group_tree dirty_list corruption

When the incompat flag EXTENT_TREE_V2 is set, we unconditionally add the
block group tree to the switch_commits list before calling
switch_commit_roots, as we do for the tree root and the chunk root.
However, the block group tree uses normal root dirty tracking and in any
transaction that does an allocation and dirties a block group, the block
group root will already be linked to a list by the dirty_list field and
this use of list_add_tail() is invalid and corrupts the prev/next
members of block_group_root->dirty_list.

This is apparent on a subsequent list_del on the prev if we enable
CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST:

[32.1571] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[32.1572] list_del corruption. next->prev should beffff958890202538, but was ffff9588992bd538. (next=ffff958890201538)
[32.1575] WARNING: lib/list_debug.c:65 at 0x0, CPU#3: sync/607
[32.1583] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 607 Comm: sync Not tainted 6.18.0 #24PREEMPT(none)
[32.1585] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS1.17.0-4.fc41 04/01/2014
[32.1587] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x108/0x120
[32.1593] RSP: 0018:ffffaa288287fdd0 EFLAGS: 00010202
[32.1594] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff95889326e800 RCX:ffff958890201538
[32.1596] RDX: ffff9588992bd538 RSI: ffff958890202538 RDI:ffffffff82a41e00
[32.1597] RBP: ffff958890202538 R08: ffffffff828fc1e8 R09:00000000ffffefff
[32.1599] R10: ffffffff8288c200 R11: ffffffff828e4200 R12:ffff958890201538
[32.1601] R13: ffff95889326e958 R14: ffff958895c24000 R15:ffff958890202538
[32.1603] FS: 00007f0c28eb5740(0000) GS:ffff958af2bd2000(0000)knlGS:0000000000000000
[32.1605] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[32.1607] CR2: 00007f0c28e8a3cc CR3: 0000000109942005 CR4:0000000000370ef0
[32.1609] Call Trace:
[32.1610] <TASK>
[32.1611] switch_commit_roots+0x82/0x1d0 [btrfs]
[32.1615] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x968/0x1550 [btrfs]
[32.1618] ? btrfs_attach_transaction_barrier+0x23/0x60 [btrfs]
[32.1621] __iterate_supers+0xe8/0x190
[32.1622] ? __pfx_sync_fs_one_sb+0x10/0x10
[32.1623] ksys_sync+0x63/0xb0
[32.1624] __do_sys_sync+0xe/0x20
[32.1625] do_syscall_64+0x73/0x450
[32.1626] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[32.1627] RIP: 0033:0x7f0c28d05d2b
[32.1632] RSP: 002b:00007ffc9d988048 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX:00000000000000a2
[32.1634] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc9d988228 RCX:00007f0c28d05d2b
[32.1636] RDX: 00007f0c28e02301 RSI: 00007ffc9d989b21 RDI:00007f0c28dba90d
[32.1637] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000001 R09:0000000000000000
[32.1639] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12:000055b96572cb80
[32.1641] R13: 000055b96572b19f R14: 00007f0c28dfa434 R15:000055b96572b034
[32.1643] </TASK>
[32.1644] irq event stamp: 0
[32.1644] hardirqs last enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[32.1646] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffffffff81298817>]copy_process+0xb37/0x2260
[32.1648] softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffff81298817>]copy_process+0xb37/0x2260
[32.1650] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[32.1652] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Furthermore, this list corruption eventually (when we happen to add a
new block group) results in getting the switch_commits and
dirty_cowonly_roots lists mixed up and attempting to call update_root
on the tree root which can't be found in the tree root, resulting in a
transaction abort:

[87.8269] BTRFS critical (device nvme1n1): unable to find root key (1 0 0) in tree 1
[87.8272] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[87.8274] BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -117)
[87.8275] WARNING: fs/btrfs/root-tree.c:153 at 0x0, CPU#4: sync/703
[87.8285] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 703 Comm: sync Not tainted 6.18.0 #25 PREEMPT(none)
[87.8287] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-4.fc41 0
---truncated---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.0.19 – < 6.1, 6.1 6.1

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 6.18.14-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.85-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.170-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 24.04 LTS linux-bluefield 6.8.0-1026.30 —
Ubuntu 25.10 linux +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-134.134 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1060.63 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1063.71 USN-8606-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 6.8.0-1062.69 USN-8607-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-nvidia 6.8.0-1039.42 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1063.69 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1058.64 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1045.48 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1060.61 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-134.134.1 USN-8497-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1058.61 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1058.61.1 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1029.30 USN-8498-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1057.58 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1060.64 USN-8492-4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1032.33 USN-8499-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1060.63~22.04.1 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1063.71~22.04.1 USN-8606-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-6.8 6.8.0-1062.69~22.04.1 USN-8609-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1063.69~22.04.1 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-136.136~22.04.1 USN-8619-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1060.61~22.04.1 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-134.134.1~22.04.1 USN-8497-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1058.61~22.04.1 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1057.58~22.04.1 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-134.134~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
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 6.8.0-2049.50 USN-8492-3
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1055.56 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1055.56~22.04.1 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 6.8.0-1060.63+fips1 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 6.8.0-1062.69+fips1 USN-8492-5
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips 6.8.0-134.134+fips1 USN-8492-5
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 6.8.0-1063.69+fips1 USN-8492-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.12.77-99.140 +2 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1544, ALAS2023-2026-1543, ALAS2023-2026-1514
Amazon Linux 2023 perf +14 1:6.1.166-197.305.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1544
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.12 +14 1:6.12.77-99.140.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1543
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.18 +14 1:6.18.15-14.217.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-1514

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